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April 3, 2020

Capitalism vs. Humanity
by Eve Ottenberg



From today’s perspective of Covid-19 mass death, the virtues of left-wing policies like Medicare for All are abundantly clear. Especially at the capitalist core, where, in the U.S., a stripped down, for profit, privatized, price-gouging, neoliberal health-care system has been proven wholly inadequate and been quickly swamped. Tens of millions cannot afford health insurance. They fall sick with Covid-19 and have a choice: suffer and spread the disease or go to a hospital, get treated and go bankrupt. M4A would correct that. In fact, every other plank of the Sanders campaign would correct similar abuses. In a sane world, that would lead to a leftish government to implement M4A, student loan forgiveness, progressive taxation and more. But this is not a sane world. And not all recent leftist governments have covered themselves with glory.

Take Greece. If ever there was a political party that betrayed its principles upon obtaining power, left-wing Syriza is that party. Elected on a wave of Greek disgust at EU austerity, Syriza held a referendum on whether Greeks should submit to that. The people resoundingly voted no, even at the risk of being booted out of the EU, whereupon Syriza promptly turned around and ignored the referendum. Not surprisingly, last July, a conservative party beat Syriza at the polls.

Was this a stunning instance of treachery by Syriza or was it something else? In the recently published essay collection, “Beyond Crisis,” one of the authors, John Holloway, argues it was something else, that for the last 30 years governments have adopted neoliberal policies “not because the leaders are traitors, but because that is the world in which governments are forced to operate.” An economy based on debt, deployed to ram austerity down the throats of workers and the middle class – that is contemporary, globalized, financialized and seemingly inescapable capitalism. Left-wing states – Greece, Venezuela, Bolivia – “have been unable (or unwilling) to break the dynamic of capitalist development.”

According to Theodoros Karyotis’ essay, in Greece “a sovereign debt crisis has been used as a pretext for a massive operation of wealth transfer from the popular classes to the local and international capitalist class.” Sound familiar? It should. It’s life as normal in the U.S., where every time the stock market shudders, political leaders become hysterical and demand that the Fed throw billions down the toilet to rescue the rich. Of course, what is also flushed away is social welfare; tax revenues which could decrease college tuition or subsidize medical care go to ceos, rich corporations and their dividends. As Holloway argues, it’s capitalism versus humanity.

This was already clear in another sphere: the climate crisis. There, capitalism sentences us to an unlivable planet, so that in the short term, fossil fuel corporations can rake in profits. With Covid-19, as with the climate, capitalism reveals its fundamental anti-human nature. “Capitalism has become our destiny,” Holloway writes. “And more and more it seems that this destiny is death…Yet we resist…because resistance is the defense of what we understand as our humanity, as our dignity…Capital flees from us…It may flee geographically in search of a more docile or more malleable labor. It also flees into technology, replacing us with machines.” He argues that we are in a stalemate “where capitalism is unable to tame us sufficiently,” and we haven’t created an alternative. This was written before Covid-19. So it does not account for the chance that capitalism may destroy itself. Its refusal to resuscitate the welfare state, its refusal to forgive debt, may undo it.
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The 2020 financial crisis could become a depression. If so, we are not in uncharted waters. We know what that looks like. We can refer to the 1930s or glance at the carcass of Greek society after the banks bled it dry and tossed it in the dumpster. Misery for almost everyone.
Unimaginable luxury for a very few. Now we have the added disaster of Covid-19. A plague that ravages a population which cannot afford health care. Overwhelmed hospitals where bodies pile up in the corridors. You can be sure there will be no shortage of ventilators for plutocrats. Still, that may not save them.

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Post by arb »

That sure is a scary article.........lolz.
Why so communist/socialist bent,you are SO smart,why such a dumb political ideology?
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Pointing out the unsustainability of the "Capitalist U.S." is rather intelligent imo... Especially compared to stupidly trying to use it to judge the messenger. Right on Ben! :volcano:

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its authoritatively illustrated that women do nearly 70 percent of all the labor that occurs in the world but receive less than 5% of the wages that are paid...

its said that at any time in history every population was involved in the gross violation of some groups rights RIGHT IN PUBLIC and the people pretended it either wasn't occurring or wasn't a crime against their claimed institutions...

I find that most anyone with a grudge against communism has little more than a few bumper sticker lines about it to rest their opinions on. much as of late the staggering number of americans who lambast socialism AS IF its synonymous with Stalinism...

you should find the time to read the constitution of the former USSR. there were three versions over the years the first being enacted quite a few years after the Bolsheviks seized the post tsar government.

every one of them puts even the most glowing take on ours to shame

soljanietzan had some good points but used his platform as a cheer for worse he claimed without cause would be better

one real scumbag...
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heres scary for ya

I searched "martial" "law" "wiki" and guess what was the number one top of the page add???

"Bible Prophecy News Headlines - Breaking Current Events"


fuck those bastards
have more money than god...
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talking shit eh?

heh

that sites a great place to bone up on your noahs flood


"Basic physics models shows how the flood could have been caused by a shift in centripetal force and angular momentum exerted upon the oceans resulting from an axial pole shift - causing them to overflow their banks during the days and weeks the pole shift was occurring before the Earth stabilized into a new axial position. "

centripetal!!!
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Post by arb »

I see.........you are a authoritarian and would enforce your political will upon others at gun point given a chance.
You claim every one is exactly what you yourself espouse as evil.
The only thing dumber than religion is politics.
Life long atheist myself but I don't shit on others for what they believe.
You and yours are the enemy of free people.
Now reeeee up some bullshit statistic about every one else being morally wrong.........except you though right?
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heres the statistic worth mentioning

when the two parties are polled as to whether of not they feel that things would be best if their own party took authoritarian control of governance in order to 'right the ship'

only 37% of democrats supported the idea
compared to 78% of republicans

capitalism in the form of market worships fails left and rights but right now its OBVIOUS

the way to bring capitalism to good heel is well illustrated throughout the world throughout its history BUT

youll never manage that arguing from the position of the compromise between it and other that your hoping to achieve

you MUST argue far to the left of it in order for the compromise that will be reached to accomplish AT LEAST what is needed
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capitalism does several ignoble things,

chief of which is that in respect to the idea there are 'two sides to everything' it holds the mike and tells everybody else 'ok, pick amongst yourselves whomever youd like to sit at the table and be the Other side to our story..."

THEN as those representatives march in it discards them left and right until it find the one whos AGREED to lose the argument before its even started

this send a signal to all the other parties that they should NEVER prosecute a winning strategy because IT will never be allowed any airtime

so all the OTHER sides descend into endless infighting as they have nothing left to rest on but being the BEST of the losers because otherwise 'nobody will ever know we exist' meanwhile 80 plus percent rest their hopes on the issues theyd hope would see the light of day

remember the old saying 'if you don't have a seat at the table its because your on the menu" ???


there are AT LEAST a half dozen other sides to the one which power and money hold.
they ALL need fair representation wherever issues they are subject to are being adjudicated

the ONLY side that should ever be excluded IS the side which wants to narrow the field to two sides

theyre the sons of bitches who to honor the spirit of inclusion

need to be chopped into bird food in public as example of what happens to you when you hate humanity...
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Post by Butcher Bob »

arb wrote:I see.........you are a authoritarian and would enforce your political will upon others at gun point given a chance.
To be fair, that applies to every government, no matter the form.
I know my life would have been much different had there not been a man with a gun enforcing someone else's political will upon me....over the use of a plant.

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