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Is there an alternative to capitalism? : Comments

By Sam Ben-Meir, published 12/10/2017

One would think that perhaps we would keep an open mind regarding alternatives; instead of buying the tired old argument that anything else must either lead to totalitarianism, or be incurably utopian.

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Hasbeen

Socialism has not failed. In fact, not only does it refuse to die, it's gaining ground worldwide, especially in the West, as capitalism degenerates into corruption, gross inequality and financial chaos.

Countless millions have died, and continue to die, in wars of aggression by capitalists determined not to let socialism succeed in any country on any level. Socialist countries are also subject to draconian financial wars of aggression (sanctions and embargoes) and propaganda wars of aggression to create instability and affect regime change.

'Failed' is not the same as 'not being allowed to succeed'.

ilmessaggio

The UK had a political party called 'Respect', headed by George Galloway - a socialist. It disbanded in 2016 because it didn't want to take political space away from the rise of Labour's Jeremy Corbyn (another socialist) and the subsequent almost 3-fold increase in Labour party membership under Corbyn's socialist leadership.
Posted by Killarney, Friday, 13 October 2017 3:46:47 PM
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You are right in one thing Killarney, there is a rise in Labour party numbers.

This is due to the growth in the number of bludgers getting on the socialist band wagon of everything for nothing. It is speeding the collapse.
Posted by Hasbeen, Friday, 13 October 2017 4:24:26 PM
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aren't all the current crop of Hollywood stars socialist. Their protection of paedophiles and rapist make the paedophile catholic priest tame.
Posted by runner, Friday, 13 October 2017 5:14:36 PM
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runner

There hasn't been a REAL socialist in Hollywood since the McCarthy purges of the 1950s. Even then, those blacklisted lefties had never been allowed to make a genuine socialist film under the studio system. The only Hollywood film that could be even remotely considered socialist would be Charlie Chaplin's Modern Times in 1936.

You're confusing socialism with liberal centrism (what real socialists used to call 'bourgeois'). No one can be a socialist when paid $60 million per picture or when one's Oscar gown carries a price tag of $30,000.
Posted by Killarney, Friday, 13 October 2017 5:47:05 PM
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The only reason that socialism is making a revival is that the millennials that support it have no memory of the complete cock-up that it made of the economy.
Posted by Shadow Minister, Saturday, 14 October 2017 5:34:12 AM
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Capitalism and socialism are such broad terms that criticism of each is meaningless without defining them.
Posted by Aidan, Saturday, 14 October 2017 11:20:22 PM
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