Post by Variety 1560 AM on May 15, 2016 11:23:55 GMT -7
Sociopathic Capitalism
Capitalism is Sociopathic – 7 Pillars By Prof. Charles Derber
1. Only individuals exist and create value with private property.
The individual’s moral mission is to pursue self-interest and profit in the market.
There are no commons, community or public goods in capitalism – only private property.
Individual selfishness is good for all.
Capitalisms’ inherent nature then is anti-Christian going against the teachings of Jesus, so how can Capitalists also claim to be Christians? Ayn Rand says we have to reject altruism, so help no one. And many now in power who claim to be Christian also believe in Ayn Rand? they are absolute opposites.
2. Competition – social Darwinism
Is a capitalist law of nature
Corporations must bully and brutalize workers to win competitive advantage and maximize profit
And attract capital investment. In other words the worker bows to the demands and supervision of the capitalist.
3. Ecocide: violence toward nature
It eliminates the commons, creating the tragedy of the commons.
It defines everything as private property
It creates climate change and other environmental destruction because it has no values other than profit.
It externalizes environmental costs (onto the taxpayers, something it avoids paying)
It requires unfettered growth and unlimited,fetishized consumption. US Chamber believes our air, water, virtually everything should be privately owned, but we get to pay for their blunders.
4. Warfare: Militarism
Capitalism requires expansion to compete and grow and that leads to permanent warfare to win global market competition.
It seeks to control other nations’ economies and markets, to establish a hegemon to manage global Capitalism and to control and terrorize the population through violence. “Capitalists fight for the fifth freedom (greed). FDR identified the 4 freedoms of the people as the freedom of speech, religion, freedom from economic want and fear. Noam Chomsky describes the capitalists' 5th freedom which is to rob, exploit and dominate, to curb "mischief" by any visible means. Would this be why we are militarizing our police?
5. Sociopathic class violence; Inequality
Creates Sociopathic inequality in which the few exploit the many
Class divisions define capitalism; a system of owners and workers with competition winnowing out losers and transforming itself into a monopoly system. This is why we stopped enforcing the antitrust laws in the 1980's.
Wealth is increasingly being accumulated and inherited by the 1% - and by the 1% of the 1% who control most social wealth. They are also amassing more wealth due to lower taxes and tax loopholes, courtesy of our government.
The 99% is increasingly being disinherited, insecure and impoverished
Inherited wealth creates capitalist castes, with the majority caste (us) sociopathically abandoned, subordinated and triaged by the 1%. “The more perfect the market (in the economist’s sense) the more likely inequality will get worse." Thomas Piketty Right now .01% of the 1% owns 50% of the US, but if they continue on in the same way they will wind up controlling 90% of US wealth, and I see that happening.
The inherited wealth is what our Founders foresaw and created the estate tax to prevent accumulated wealth. Now, the 114th Congress wants to completely repeal this inheritance tax, calling it the death tax.
6. Goods: Profits over usefulness and the public goods deficit
Capitalism creates:
Market or exchange value rather than use value
A glut of useless, wasteful and dangerous goods which include junk food; tobacco’ guns and weapons’ toxic Wall Street instruments; oil, Is a partial list.
A deficit of public goods, since the state is conceived as incapable of creating value, which is a fallacy.
“Here, in an atmosphere of private opulence and pubic squalor, the private goods have full sway." J. K. Galbraith
The real deficit is in public good and it does not exist in capitalism. Education, health care, conversations, community, public transportation, roads, utilities.
7. Politics: Fictive Democracy or Democracy is a fiction – cannot exist with capitalism
Capitalism is ruled by the 1%, corpocracy not democracy:
Money creates power
We have procedural democracy but not a substantive democracy
Corpocracy is rule of, by and for the corporations in the name of democracy
The state carries out Sociopathic exploitation of the people in their name.
“We can have democracy in this country, or we can have great wealth concentrated in the hands of a few, but we can’t have both.” Louis Brandeis
We have procedural democracy. We still vote, but in reality have no voice in government. No matter who we vote for we get what corporations want, currently that’s 97% of the time. People are opting out of even voting. We can change this system is by teaching people how the system works.
We need to understand that what the people in the United States believe is more important than any other country due to U.S. world dominance. Therefore you will see a more controlled and censored media in the U.S. than elsewhere. Just today I saw a site that showed Time Magazine cover page and stories in the U.S. vs Asia and Europe, which actually showed what was happening in the world. This is commonplace. CNN does not report the same information here as they do in Europe. We are contained in an information bubble which is why I believe who is controlling the internet is vital and right now we're still in that fight. The U.S. is ideologically narrower than other countries and our media is such that it all but eliminates any critical discussion. On any Sunday morning show you will see, and hear far more Republicans than Democrats. You will never see or hear a host correct any politician, especially not a Republican, even when they tell outright lies. This is why I never watch them. They are a joke and the joke's on We The People.
1. Only individuals exist and create value with private property.
The individual’s moral mission is to pursue self-interest and profit in the market.
There are no commons, community or public goods in capitalism – only private property.
Individual selfishness is good for all.
Capitalisms’ inherent nature then is anti-Christian going against the teachings of Jesus, so how can Capitalists also claim to be Christians? Ayn Rand says we have to reject altruism, so help no one. And many now in power who claim to be Christian also believe in Ayn Rand? they are absolute opposites.
2. Competition – social Darwinism
Is a capitalist law of nature
Corporations must bully and brutalize workers to win competitive advantage and maximize profit
And attract capital investment. In other words the worker bows to the demands and supervision of the capitalist.
3. Ecocide: violence toward nature
It eliminates the commons, creating the tragedy of the commons.
It defines everything as private property
It creates climate change and other environmental destruction because it has no values other than profit.
It externalizes environmental costs (onto the taxpayers, something it avoids paying)
It requires unfettered growth and unlimited,fetishized consumption. US Chamber believes our air, water, virtually everything should be privately owned, but we get to pay for their blunders.
4. Warfare: Militarism
Capitalism requires expansion to compete and grow and that leads to permanent warfare to win global market competition.
It seeks to control other nations’ economies and markets, to establish a hegemon to manage global Capitalism and to control and terrorize the population through violence. “Capitalists fight for the fifth freedom (greed). FDR identified the 4 freedoms of the people as the freedom of speech, religion, freedom from economic want and fear. Noam Chomsky describes the capitalists' 5th freedom which is to rob, exploit and dominate, to curb "mischief" by any visible means. Would this be why we are militarizing our police?
5. Sociopathic class violence; Inequality
Creates Sociopathic inequality in which the few exploit the many
Class divisions define capitalism; a system of owners and workers with competition winnowing out losers and transforming itself into a monopoly system. This is why we stopped enforcing the antitrust laws in the 1980's.
Wealth is increasingly being accumulated and inherited by the 1% - and by the 1% of the 1% who control most social wealth. They are also amassing more wealth due to lower taxes and tax loopholes, courtesy of our government.
The 99% is increasingly being disinherited, insecure and impoverished
Inherited wealth creates capitalist castes, with the majority caste (us) sociopathically abandoned, subordinated and triaged by the 1%. “The more perfect the market (in the economist’s sense) the more likely inequality will get worse." Thomas Piketty Right now .01% of the 1% owns 50% of the US, but if they continue on in the same way they will wind up controlling 90% of US wealth, and I see that happening.
The inherited wealth is what our Founders foresaw and created the estate tax to prevent accumulated wealth. Now, the 114th Congress wants to completely repeal this inheritance tax, calling it the death tax.
6. Goods: Profits over usefulness and the public goods deficit
Capitalism creates:
Market or exchange value rather than use value
A glut of useless, wasteful and dangerous goods which include junk food; tobacco’ guns and weapons’ toxic Wall Street instruments; oil, Is a partial list.
A deficit of public goods, since the state is conceived as incapable of creating value, which is a fallacy.
“Here, in an atmosphere of private opulence and pubic squalor, the private goods have full sway." J. K. Galbraith
The real deficit is in public good and it does not exist in capitalism. Education, health care, conversations, community, public transportation, roads, utilities.
7. Politics: Fictive Democracy or Democracy is a fiction – cannot exist with capitalism
Capitalism is ruled by the 1%, corpocracy not democracy:
Money creates power
We have procedural democracy but not a substantive democracy
Corpocracy is rule of, by and for the corporations in the name of democracy
The state carries out Sociopathic exploitation of the people in their name.
“We can have democracy in this country, or we can have great wealth concentrated in the hands of a few, but we can’t have both.” Louis Brandeis
We have procedural democracy. We still vote, but in reality have no voice in government. No matter who we vote for we get what corporations want, currently that’s 97% of the time. People are opting out of even voting. We can change this system is by teaching people how the system works.
We need to understand that what the people in the United States believe is more important than any other country due to U.S. world dominance. Therefore you will see a more controlled and censored media in the U.S. than elsewhere. Just today I saw a site that showed Time Magazine cover page and stories in the U.S. vs Asia and Europe, which actually showed what was happening in the world. This is commonplace. CNN does not report the same information here as they do in Europe. We are contained in an information bubble which is why I believe who is controlling the internet is vital and right now we're still in that fight. The U.S. is ideologically narrower than other countries and our media is such that it all but eliminates any critical discussion. On any Sunday morning show you will see, and hear far more Republicans than Democrats. You will never see or hear a host correct any politician, especially not a Republican, even when they tell outright lies. This is why I never watch them. They are a joke and the joke's on We The People.