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Farmer-Rick

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17. Democracy always gets destroyed by capitalism

Reply to nycbos (Reply #14)

Tue Oct 14, 2025, 10:03 AM

Oct 14

Capitalism is top down rule. Democracy is about every person having an equal say in our government. The 2 are incompatible.

You can't have a filthy rich person ordering his huge mass of workers around and expect democracy to magically take hold. Those workers only know a boss, a dictator, a king CEO. That's why so many people in the US voted away their democracy. They voted for an idiot who told them he would be a dictator.

They don't know what democracy is. Their everyday life is filled with doing what they are told; being ordered around by a better paid person.

You need more democracy in the economy. Not more capitalism.

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There we go Cirsium Oct 14 #38

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Huh? Cirsium Oct 14 #40

I didn't single him out; I commented on him only because he was the first on your list Ocelot II Oct 14 #41

We've made some progress here nycbos Oct 13 #9

One of our Achilles heels hueymahl Oct 13 #11

Yup nycbos Oct 14 #14

Democracy always gets destroyed by capitalism Farmer-Rick Oct 14 #17

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That's just weird word play Farmer-Rick Oct 14 #31

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Communism has never been tried Farmer-Rick Oct 14 #16

The Soviet Union was certainly communist as they owned everything not just the means of production EX500rider Oct 14 #22

There was private property in the old USSR Farmer-Rick Oct 14 #34

"True Communism" is never going to happen on a large scale, to unwieldy EX500rider Oct 14 #32

You maybe correct Farmer-Rick Oct 14 #35

I thought Sweden had the Nobel Committee Miguelito Loveless Oct 14 #19

Norway does the Peace Prize; Sweden does all the others. Ocelot II Oct 14 #20

Learn something new every day Miguelito Loveless Oct 14 #28