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In reply to the discussion: You know what, f*ck Capitalism... [View all]jcmaine72
(1,773 posts)behind it. The extreme avarice, callous insensitivity to human suffering, and exploitation that are the cornerstones of capitalism are nothing but pure evil. What boggles my mind are the people who claim to support social justice who also defend capitalism. There can be no social justice without first achieving economic justice, and economic justice simply isn't possible in the greed-fueled pus pocket of capitalism.
People's attitudes towards Socialism in America, even among many so-called "progressives", proves that a little brainwashing apparently goes a long way. Many people are still programmed to associate that word with the USSR and its brutal military dictatorship. Many are still programmed to see it as their patriotic duty to uphold a system, as you have brilliantly illustrated in your posts, that wouldn't piss on them or their families if they were on fire if the price for doing so was to cost someone somewhere a modicum of profit. "Murica! Murica! Profit! Profit! Capitalism! Capitalism!" and fuck everything and everyone else. That's what people in our country have been programmed to embrace as "good" and "wholesome". We must be insane.