On Wed, Jul 20, 2016 at 07:12:29PM +0000, Sean Lynch wrote:
On Wed, Jul 20, 2016 at 11:21 AM Александр <afalex169@gmail.com> wrote:
2016-07-20 19:47 GMT+03:00 Sean Lynch <seanl@literati.org>:
a system is unsuited to anything but mass construction for mass destruction.
The capitalist system is breaking down because the only thing it's good for is war.
Brilliant!
There was a time when your edits would have bothered me, because what I thought of as "capitalism" was just people freely exchanging with one another. But that was just a libertarian attempt to coopt a term that was originally meant pejoratively. I do believe in free exchange (though "free" is obviously open to interpretation) and some form of private property (again, open to interpretation). What I don't believe in is economies enslaved to the state for the purpose of powering the war machine.
Oh, I believe in them - they are very real and dangerous and need to be dismantled. I assume that's what you meant though :) BTW, <Russian fan boy hat again> USSR, as well as Russia, has proposed and wanted, a few times, to get going on reducing the nuclear missile stockpiles, at least once even proposing to reduce them to zero. It was always North America (BMIC I assume) that would not go there...