If you don’t know how you got here you sure as fuck dont know where you are going. If you dont know liberals have been trying to reform capitalism for over 250 years, they will keep trying the same failed techniques over and over and never getting out of the hole they’ve helped create. The techniques capitalists use to stay in power have also stayed the same, using the public’s lack of historical context to keep them where they will not become a threat to their existence.
The left starts with anticapitalism, as does socialism.
YOU are the one who clearly doesn’t know how we got here. If you’re going to try to “um, actually” me, you had better damn well have your facts in order.
The Wealth of Nations was published 250 years ago. Capitalism didnt fucking EXIST “over 250 years ago”, let alone as a system in place. There have always been exploitative systems, but not the one founded on Adam Smith’s political philosophy
If we’re going to fight against a system as entrenched as capitalism, the least you can do is put a basic modicum of effort into knowing the actual history, before trying to claim superiority by posting old quotes by smarter people than yourself, without context, and expecting other people to interpret your meaning for themselves. It’s lazy.
I didn’t ask for your historically inaccurate opinion on liberal reform. I asked the moderator of this community if this community’s purpose remains unchanged, or if the sidebar need be updated.
Did you actually read that article? Because it says pretty much exactly what I did in the first lines: they brought elements of the later capitalist system with them. Mercantilism and other explaoitative systems existed long before 1776, as I said.
Ah, yes, “everything I dislike is capitalism”, mixed with a bit of “everything I dislike is liberalism”. I think I have what response I’m likely to get from the mod, and if that’s what this community is now, I’ll just leave you to your poorly-delineated verbiage and parroted quotes without context. Good day.
If you don’t know how you got here you sure as fuck dont know where you are going. If you dont know liberals have been trying to reform capitalism for over 250 years, they will keep trying the same failed techniques over and over and never getting out of the hole they’ve helped create. The techniques capitalists use to stay in power have also stayed the same, using the public’s lack of historical context to keep them where they will not become a threat to their existence.
The left starts with anticapitalism, as does socialism.
YOU are the one who clearly doesn’t know how we got here. If you’re going to try to “um, actually” me, you had better damn well have your facts in order.
The Wealth of Nations was published 250 years ago. Capitalism didnt fucking EXIST “over 250 years ago”, let alone as a system in place. There have always been exploitative systems, but not the one founded on Adam Smith’s political philosophy
If we’re going to fight against a system as entrenched as capitalism, the least you can do is put a basic modicum of effort into knowing the actual history, before trying to claim superiority by posting old quotes by smarter people than yourself, without context, and expecting other people to interpret your meaning for themselves. It’s lazy.
I didn’t ask for your historically inaccurate opinion on liberal reform. I asked the moderator of this community if this community’s purpose remains unchanged, or if the sidebar need be updated.
Harvard Business School disagrees with you
Did you actually read that article? Because it says pretty much exactly what I did in the first lines: they brought elements of the later capitalist system with them. Mercantilism and other explaoitative systems existed long before 1776, as I said.
Changing the name doesnt change the ideology behind it.
Ah, yes, “everything I dislike is capitalism”, mixed with a bit of “everything I dislike is liberalism”. I think I have what response I’m likely to get from the mod, and if that’s what this community is now, I’ll just leave you to your poorly-delineated verbiage and parroted quotes without context. Good day.
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