tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36028082.post9161787099612480460..comments2024-03-22T19:52:46.571+00:00Comments on SOCIALISM OR YOUR MONEY BACK: The poor will always be with us...Poetry Coalshedhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05514953133244910986noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36028082.post-76543666858315329032015-04-01T18:31:34.163+00:002015-04-01T18:31:34.163+00:00I'm not sure if your comment is meant to be an...I'm not sure if your comment is meant to be an ironic example of the distorted view of an capitalist apologist or indeed offering the case for capitalism but ignoring the reference to Venezuela which we do not consider socialist but merely a liberal social democracy financing reforms through petro-dollars, let us ask why there exists starving people in the first place.<br /><br /><br /> We have enough food produced to feed everyone and NGOs and charities will avow of the existence of markets replete with food for sale, yet there is hunger. Why? Because people cannot AFFORD to buy this food...they have insufficient money to pay for food. What rational, sane society lets people die because they have no money to exchange for the necessities of life? <br /><br />There is a saying if hard work makes you rich then an African peasant woman should be a millionaire and obviously she is not. <br />The usual answer is that capitalism creates an economy where men and women engage in employment and so earns the cash to spend. But Marx demonstrated with his analysis of the Enclosure system that to create a work-force capitalism drove people off the land and into the factories. The same process is being undertaken through the "Green Revolution" and more recent land-grabbing policies.<br /><br />I could complicate matters by bringing in the issues of the financial speculation of the food futures market in the stock-exchanges, or how food is being turned into ethanol rather than used to feed people because of the higher returns that provides, but stick to the basic capitalism...it is a system based upon buying and selling...no one sells unless there is a profit and no-one can buy unless they have the wherewithal...if the consequence of this is starving to death, then so bre it...this is fully acceptable to those who support capitalism. <br /><br />Not only is this not restricted to the developing world but we witness the expansion and growth of banking in the UK...and i mean the rise of food-banks to feed the poor. <br /><br />Starving and hungry people are a consequence of capitalism. <br /><br />Of course, some economists can manipulate statistics and data as the article discusses to show that somehow capitalism is successfully tackling world poverty. But is it capable of making the problem go away ? ajohnstonehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09874891810770297962noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36028082.post-89443274902496025102015-04-01T13:58:16.026+00:002015-04-01T13:58:16.026+00:00Found this..
any system that is not based on indiv...Found this..<br />any system that is not based on individuals having the freedom to work for their own benefit or to pursue their own dreams is never going to work and will always end with mass poverty. just look at what is happening in venezuela at the minute.<br /><br /> capitalism has given us so much and it still has lots to give. sometimes the government has to step in (mainly when it comes to environment) but in general capitalism has shown itself to be the best system to create wealth and to feed starving humans.<br /><br />http://www.economist.com/news/leaders/21578665-nearly-1-billion-people-have-been-taken-out-extreme-poverty-20-years-world-should-aimAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36028082.post-66222539619628935722015-04-01T13:39:49.728+00:002015-04-01T13:39:49.728+00:00Wasn't it $2/day? A slight of hand.
If it ...Wasn't it $2/day? A slight of hand. <br /><br />If it were true, it would be good for socialism. The problem starving people don't make good socialists, as they spend their time looking for the next meal. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com