What would you like to know? Capitalism is just as vile and destructive as any other significant socioeconomic system that we’ve come up with, it most certainly has its fair share of crimes against humanity
the National Museum of the U.S. Navy in Washington, D.C., states unambiguously on a plaque with its atomic bomb exhibit: “The vast destruction wreaked by the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki and the loss of 135,000 people made little impact on the Japanese military. However, the Soviet invasion of Manchuria … changed their minds.”
Seven of the United States’ eight five-star Army and Navy officers in 1945 agreed with the Navy’s vitriolic assessment. Generals Dwight Eisenhower, Douglas MacArthur and Henry “Hap” Arnold and Admirals William Leahy, Chester Nimitz, Ernest King, and William Halsey are on record stating that the atomic bombs were either militarily unnecessary, morally reprehensible, or both.
“that the use of this barbarous weapon at Hiroshima and Nagasaki was of no material assistance in our war against Japan. The Japanese were already defeated and ready to surrender …. In being the first to use it we had adopted an ethical standard common to the barbarians of the Dark Ages.”
“the Japanese were ready to surrender and it wasn’t necessary to hit them with that awful thing.”
That’s interesting, I would say it’s several orders of magnitude more vile and destructive than any other significant socioeconomic system that we’ve come up with.
I guess the answer must lie in the middle - capitalism is only a few orders of magnitude more vile and destructive than any other significant socioeconomic system that we’ve come up with.
Capitalism replaces direct, personal exploitation with indirect, impersonal exploitation. It transfers all wrongs into an abstract structural logic. It is at once the most obfuscated and difficult to understand, yet the most efficient at supporting a non working minority class at the expense of everyone else.
The only way out of this is to organize a society upon non-exploitative relations of production. A non-vile system of government can only result from that real basis, not the other way around.
@WhiskeyOaks@hexbear.net curious on your thoughts… I like hearing ‘alternative’ perspectives of capitalist crimes against humanity
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What would you like to know? Capitalism is just as vile and destructive as any other significant socioeconomic system that we’ve come up with, it most certainly has its fair share of crimes against humanity
Capitalism is just as bad as socialism because academics and corporate news sources controlled by the CIA told me so.
https://www.latimes.com/opinion/story/2020-08-05/hiroshima-anniversary-japan-atomic-bombs
Lmao, I bet your dating profile says you’re “not political”
That’s interesting, I would say it’s several orders of magnitude more vile and destructive than any other significant socioeconomic system that we’ve come up with.
I guess the answer must lie in the middle - capitalism is only a few orders of magnitude more vile and destructive than any other significant socioeconomic system that we’ve come up with.
Capitalism is more vile than autocracy? Than dictatorship? Than absolute monarchy?
Capitalism replaces direct, personal exploitation with indirect, impersonal exploitation. It transfers all wrongs into an abstract structural logic. It is at once the most obfuscated and difficult to understand, yet the most efficient at supporting a non working minority class at the expense of everyone else.
The only way out of this is to organize a society upon non-exploitative relations of production. A non-vile system of government can only result from that real basis, not the other way around.
Just as vile and destructive as socialism? I doubt that very much
you not ina position to talk about it in a “Just as” because you only know one.
you need to be more humble and more curious …
Good point, so why don’t we come up with a new socioeconomic system?
Do you disagree?