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  • I wish they were just removing themselves from the world stage. What they’re actually doing is shifting away from a model of direct co-operation with allied nations and strong economic ties with otherwise less friendly nations, to unilateral action wherever and whenever they feel like it.

    Their foreign policy isn’t moving towards isolationism, it’s moving towards unchecked fascist domination.


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    6 days ago

    You’re exemplifying my point quite well there, in terms of debating from the perspective of your own very precise no-true-Scotsman definition.

    But to answer you at face value, let’s have a look in wikipedia’s opening paragraph on Capitalism:

    This socioeconomic system has developed historically through several stages and is defined by a number of basic constituent elements: private property, profit motive, capital accumulation, competitive markets, commodification, wage labor, and an emphasis on innovation and economic growth.

    It’s going to be a struggle convincing the developed world, or even the majority of left-leaning voters, that owning your own home, earning a company salary, paying people for services rendered, or market competition all need abolishing. Most people just want to see a bit more market regulation, monopoly busting, worker protections, social welfare, money removed from politics, and the rich paying their share of tax.


  • This is the huge problem with the wider debate; hardcore leftists have a very specific well-defined meaning in mind when they use the word “Capitalism”, whereas the majority of the general public think “Capitalism” just means “you can start a business if you want”.

    “Neoliberalism” doesn’t work in most rhetoric either because it’s got the word “liberal” in it. We need a new word that’s unambiguously understood to refer to the specific components of capitalism that are objectionable.








  • Put it this way, none of the writers of the Wikipedia article on him have included mentions of environmentalism anywhere close to the opening paragraphs.

    Though ironically enough, given what the thread was originally about, the only reference to a environmental activism I can see in there is one where he infiltrates a gang of eco-terrorists to take them down…