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Re: Capitalism and Democracy (4.00 / 4)

Often when I see FREEDOM on TV news, the freedom seems to be that narrow freedom of the freedom to buy things. I see more a conflation of freedom and capitalism more than democracy. (although it is also impled that without democracy there is no freedom, but not to the same extent)

Any idiot can face a crisis - it's day to day living that wears you out.

by ceebs (ceebs (at) eurotrib (dot) com) on Fri Nov 30th, 2007 at 06:30:25 PM EST

Re: Capitalism and Democracy (4.00 / 3)

As a schoolboy I learned that Communism is the exploitation of man by man, whereas Capitalism is the other way round.

I don't think we've seen real democracy yet. Those who live in what they think is a democracy are mostly asleep, and those that don't are powerless.

You can't be me, I'm taken

by Sven Triloqvist on Fri Dec 7th, 2007 at 08:27:13 AM EST
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Re: Capitalism and Democracy (none / 0)

LOL

by Andhakari on Fri Dec 7th, 2007 at 05:06:42 PM EST
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Re: Capitalism and Democracy (4.00 / 3)

I'm more cynical. Freedom^TM is like Democracy^TM - the word used to describe a system which benefits Wall St.

Real freedom and real democracy are inimical to Freedom^TM and Democracy^TM.

So the way these words are used is really just spin and marketing.

by ThatBritGuy (thatbritguy (at) googlemail.com) on Fri Dec 7th, 2007 at 08:45:19 AM EST
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