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JaneyVee

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10. Exactly. And cheap labor with no workers rights sounds familiar to a certain political party here in

Reply to white_wolf (Reply #8)

Tue Feb 19, 2013, 07:19 PM

Feb 2013

The US. We have a political party here that advocates AGAINST higher wages, against healthcare, against education, and against workers rights. That would lead exactly to THAT type of economy.

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Capitalism [View all] Pharaoh Feb 2013 OP

Yep. Or........ socialist_n_TN Feb 2013 #1

Enslavement exists under other economic systems as well. N/t. OceanEcosystem Feb 2013 #2

Such as? JaneyVee Feb 2013 #3

Soviet labor camps, when the USSR still existed. Look it up. OceanEcosystem Feb 2013 #4

Regarding the USSR: white_wolf Feb 2013 #6

True, but those labor camps are just EXTREME capitalism. JaneyVee Feb 2013 #7

The USSR was, in my opinion, a form of capitalilsm. white_wolf Feb 2013 #8

Exactly. And cheap labor with no workers rights sounds familiar to a certain political party here in JaneyVee Feb 2013 #10

All of them, pretty much Recursion Feb 2013 #14

Paying a living wage would greatly help U.S. capitalism lose its 'slavery' stigma. JaneyVee Feb 2013 #15

K & R Cal Carpenter Feb 2013 #5

This should be at the top of the greatest threads - TBF Feb 2013 #9

And that's the reason you can't compromise with capitalism...... socialist_n_TN Feb 2013 #11

K&R nt Mnemosyne Feb 2013 #12

Only democratic socialism can save us all from these greedy bankers and these evil corporations. craigmatic Feb 2013 #13