Ehm, cicerone, are you recuperating from a major sunstroke?
yes, yes, ...... HELP! c.i.
Well, take some shadow in the grandeur of the extraterrestrial outing.
http://extraterrestrial-life.net/
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How about a mixed economy, C.I., in which the best of both captitalism and socialism are coordinated for maximum effect? It WILL undoudtedly dampen some of the energy and opportunity of capitalists (but looking at the piracy of Bush's policies we can see that that's not all bad). The value and function of socialism is not productive quality; it's economic justice. The function of capitalism is productive quality with no concern for justice. Exploitation is acceptable and justified ideologically in terms of social evolutionism...survival of the fattest.
That should read: "What if there were . . . "
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JLN, We have a long way to go to clean up capitalism; to equalize the pay and benefits of the line workers to the CEO and other officers and board members. How these unethical crooks that live with themselves by 'taking' millions of dollars in salaries and benefits while they lay off workers is unconscienable. Nothing wrong with capitalism, but without ethics nothing will work, no matter how 'legal' they may seem. c.i.
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C.I., I agree, there is nothing intrinsically wrong with capitalism except that it must be regulated (to some degree at least) given it is a system that feeds on greed. Socialism's danger is that it feeds on the desire for power. The first threatens to generate plutocracies, the second tyrannies.
Amen to that.
I think human subconsciousness and the lightspeed technologies that bind us increasingly form a global unison voice. Hierarchical politics loose their legitimacy because of this. Political participation becomes direct, not through the representation of others, not every four years, but as we speak.
The global mind is starting to take shape.
