Michael Price wrote:
> Capitalism has always provided at least that
> much and yet you claim it has poverty.
Ron Allen wrote:
> Capitalism has never provided every person with
> what he or she needs.
Michael Price wrote:
> They how come death by starvation is practically
> unknown in capitalist countries?
Ron Allen wrote:
> There are band-aids -- superficial remedies like
> charitable institutions, and tem****ary solutions
> like welfare legislation. These alleviate and
> relieve the poverty, misery, and suffering of so
> many. But, these are extra-capitalist actions
> and measures, precisely intended to soften, and
> to lessen the poverty that capitalism causes.
Michael Price wrote:
> Charities are in no way an "extra-capitalist"
> action but precisely the way capitalism is
> supposed to work. Someone wants something,
> namely that other people not be as poor as they
> are, they pay money and someone corrects the
> problem. As for welfare legislation it was
> neither designed nor successful in reducing
> poverty.
Ron Allen answers:
Charities are not the way capitalism is supposed
to work. Charities are a humane response to the
inhumane processes and practices of capitalism.
Welfare legislation has been successful in
reducing poverty; but, welfare legislation is
never going to be enough. Bourgeois socialism
is never going to be enough.
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