Reply #54: the battle of the brand names

[William Z. Foster]

Terms are not defined, there is no context for the discussion, people have the words confused with the things the word connotate, and each person gets to have their own meanings, their own feelings, and their own theories. Wheee!! This is what the end of the world looks like.

"Grandpa, what were people doing back in those days when the world was collapsing?" "Well, they were arguing ideologies and theories - or actually they argued about certain words that once had meaning, but were by then merely brand names in people's minds."

"Well, I feel that capitalism means this."

"No, no it really means this!"

"I think it could be a good thing, but not the way it is being run now."

"Capitalism is just sales and trade and nice things like that. What's the problem?"

"Capitalism is inevitable, it is human nature. It has always been here and always will be here."

"Capitalism is OK, it is corporate capitalism that is bad!"

"Well if we had REAL capitalism things would be different."

"Oh yeah? Socialism is no better."

"We need regulated capitalism, Yeah that's it!"

Capitalism is destroying the planet and taking the human race down with it, we are facing the greatest crisis ever as a result, and right here in the heart of the empire, in the headquarters for global capitalism, otherwise intelligent people can not even see it, do not even know what it is. But they are "for" it, by God!

But people have been so heavily propagandized about the word that they are unable to think, say or hear this statement - Capitalism is destroying the planet and taking the human race down with it.