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The New DU. Reply #12: Capitalism operates on creating profits from suppressing the value of labor.
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Wed May-26-10 06:36 PM
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| 12. Capitalism operates on creating profits from suppressing the value of labor. |
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<"Maybe it's not the system. Maybe it's the lack of people who won't (or can't?) become intimately involved with governing?">
It's a systemic character of capitalism that without checks and balances those who profit off the labor of others (capitalists) will run the government for their own benefit. This becomes a Catch-22. We could have a democracy, if the capitalists didn't subvert it for their own uses--and we could stop the capitalists from subverting the system if only we had a democracy. Having "good capitalists" who don't subvert the system is not a realistic option.
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