On May 15, 5:50=A0pm, =D6rd=F6g <tz81qm...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> DarkMatter has over simplified the issues:
>
> > Capitalism lets people simply die if they don't have money to buy the
> > things they need. It is very exploitative. There are many jobs where
> > people work hard but are paid too little to be able to buy the things
> > they need in life.
>
> Capitalism is the rule of the few over the many. This has always been
> so and always will be.
You mix the concept of 'exploitation' with that of 'capitalism'..
While you omit linking the concept of unfair 'exploitation' with that
of 'communism'.
"CAPITALISM is a social system based on the recognition of inalienable
rights in which people are free to produce and trade and thus
precondition an economic system in which all property is privately
owned[1][2] and operated for profit,[3] and in which investments,
distribution, income, production and pricing of goods and services are
determined through the operation of a market economy." - wiki
=2E.
"In political economy, economics, and sociology, EXPLOITATION involves
a persistent social relation****p in which certain persons are being
mistreated or unfairly used for the benefit of others. This
corresponds to one ethical conception of exploitation, that is, the
treatment of human beings as mere means to an end =97 or as mere
"objects". In different terms, "exploitation" refers to the use of
people as a resource, with little or no consideration of their well-
being. This can take the following basic forms:
-taking something off a person or group that rightfully belongs to
them
-short-changing people in trade
-directly or indirectly forcing somebody to work
-using somebody against his will, or without his consent or knowledge
-imposing an arbitrary differential treatment of people to the
advantage of some and the disadvantage of others (as in
ascriptive discrimination) "
=2E.
The comparison, here, shows the failures of communism in comparison to
capitalism:
- Communist subject do not have inalienable rights
- Communist subjects are not free to produce and trade
- Communist subject cannot possess property that is privately owned
- Communist subjects do not participate in a market where the pricing
of goods and services are determined through the operation of a market
economy."
Capitalistic systems can be corrupted (as we in the US have seen
recently) to become exploitative.. but communism is based on the 'a
priori' assumption of exploitation.
Communism cannot exist without the exploitation of individual human
rights.
=2E..
The few rule over the many? Yes.. that is how all political systems on
this planet operate.
The difference is that the communist few that rule over the many - are
not elected, and too often kill the many.
PS: Here is another book to add to your commune library:
'Conquest, R. (1978). Kolyma: The Arctic Death Camps'
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