Tuesday, October 27, 2015

Capitalism 'works' because Democracy 'works'; democracy 'works' because Equality and Freedom 'work'.

Capitalism 'works' because Democracy 'works'. Democracy 'works', because the Equality and Freedom of each and every human being within a political system is the basis for the underlying, political ideology, of every Democratic Nation. Capitalism cannot 'work' in an Autocracy; it cannot work in a Plutocracy. The reason it doesn't work in a Plutocracy is because the rich are already in 'control' of the circulation and accumulation of Capital, and the 'competition' necessary for real Capitalism would not exist. Competition would be restricted to the lower levels of society and it would become 'meaningless' and maybe, 'neighborly'. It would not be 'real competition'; only a 'tolerated competition'. That is one of the dangers that exists today. The fastest way to Plutocracy is to create 'legal fictions' that are considered 'persons' and are protected by the Constitution. Once a corporation acquires 'person-hood', it can use every Constitutional trick in the 'Book' to protect and expand its power as an artificial, fictional, 'person'. That is what they(corporations) have done. No human individual can compete, in a real sense, with a corporation. Its bad enough that corporations are solely 'driven' by the profits motive, but now, as a result of Citizens United,they can even 'participate in politics'. What had been allowed 'indirectly' is now allowed 'directly', thanks to the 'blessing' of the Supreme Court. Today, truly, 'money talks' and 'political bullshit' walks. What has happened to the human condition? Where are the States-men?

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