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Edited May 02, 2009, 20:38
Re: capitalism and the law
May 02, 2009, 20:20
Merrick wrote:
Citizensmurf wrote:
the notion of destroying capitalism (and American Capitalism at that, as though it merited a seperate entry in Webster's) is completely ridiculous.


In what way is it more ridiculous than continuing capitalism?

Capitalism requires perpetual economic growth.


Why does it? What is it about capitalism specifically that demands that growth be perpetual?

Surely the problem is not the specifics of a politcal or economic system but a basic failure of the human imagination. We are as a species incapable of believing that we can enjoy a safe existence without tangible proof of a successful harvest, the knowledge that the fruits of that harvest are controlled by our tribe and that the security of the tribe is guaranteed by Great Men. Adam Smith didn't invent that. Engels couldn't begin to undo it. It can't be remedied at the point of a pike or a gun. We can dress up our amnesia however we like but the fact is we know more than ever of the world and the conditions in which fellow humans live and yet we do nothing because we have not, as a species, made a conscious connection between how "we" live and how "they" die. We haven't learned to conceive what it means to be safe on anything beyond a tribal level and so on it goes. You can dispense with Capitalism or any -ism you like but that isn't about to change as a result of any bottom-up political movement of the people. The one kind of movement that really changes "how are we to live" thinking is migratory. We have had our chance so now we are to have change thrust upon us instead. Which is a fair cop in the circumstances.
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