Board index › Topical Discussion › Politics, Philosophy, and Religion

Are are you a Randroid Capitalist or a Marxist Socialist?

Page 2 of 2 [ 23 posts ]  Go to page Previous  1, 2

Previous topic | Next topic

AceOfSpades
Veteran
Veteran

User avatar

Joined: 11 Feb 2006
Gender: Male
Posts: 3,754
Location: Sean Penn, Cambodia

07 Jul 2011, 9:41 pm

blauSamstag wrote:
AceOfSpades wrote:
blauSamstag wrote:
Here, let me see if i can respond to the OP on the same intellectual level as that which he posed his original question.

"I know you are, but what am i?"
TAKES ONE TO KNOW ONE HURDUR


quite so.
Looks like I'm in good company since the ingenuity of the original post is contagious lulz.



AstroGeek
Veteran
Veteran

User avatar

Joined: 28 Jan 2011
Age: 31
Gender: Male
Posts: 1,582

09 Jul 2011, 12:34 am

Dark_Lord_2008 wrote:
Greedy, selfish, immoral are the principles behind Capitalism. A sex worker will sell her body and repeat the process over and over: a true Capitalist is a sex worker. A drug dealer sells his drugs at the right price and he is also a Capitalist.

Capitalists sell anything to make a living or profit. Supply and demand determines the price of capitalism. Capitalists do not believe in charitable actions. Not my taxes is their argument and taxes is where the government has a gun held to your head.

Socialism is the redistribution of taxes or the giving away of proceeds through charitable donations. Socialists need to borrow more money and they usually end up running out of money because they give it all away. Socialists rely on leeching off others hard work.

You are either a Randroid Capitalist or a Marxist Socialist.

^Discuss

I know you are saying these things as a troll, but anyway: I'm pretty sure what you describe is not really Marxist socialism--it sounds more like the modern social democratic welfare state. Marx described socialism as the workers owning the means of production.



metaphysics
Veteran
Veteran

User avatar

Joined: 1 Jun 2011
Age: 35
Gender: Female
Posts: 809
Location: Everywhere

09 Jul 2011, 12:39 am

All too difinite, and there are gaps between them also.

Would you like to tell us more please, and we can know more about your meaning by that, therefore, can discuss more?

What's the meaning of Randroid, in your difinition?



Burzum
Veteran
Veteran

User avatar

Joined: 26 Apr 2011
Age: 33
Gender: Male
Posts: 1,205

13 Jul 2011, 4:26 pm

Dark_Lord_2008 wrote:
Greedy, selfish, immoral are the principles behind Capitalism. A sex worker will sell her body and repeat the process over and over: a true Capitalist is a sex worker. A drug dealer sells his drugs at the right price and he is also a Capitalist.

Right, and I'm sure the baker who sells his bread for a profit to families who need food is also a greedy, selfish, immoral sex worker. Those damn bakers, I knew there was something off about them.



User1
Yellow-bellied Woodpecker
Yellow-bellied Woodpecker

User avatar

Joined: 29 Jan 2009
Age: 184
Gender: Male
Posts: 68

13 Jul 2011, 4:37 pm

Randroid! Ha. That actually made me laugh.

I lean towards capitalism, because it has a proven track record of working, it allows freedom of choice, and it rewards those who benefit society by offering a service or good.

Also, capitalists are not against charity. They're against forced charity, which in essence is theft & redistribution. Liberals and Socialists like to take money out of other's pockets to fund charitable causes.

I'm more of a Libertarian, and I don't see Gary Johnson or Ron Paul winning (although I'll vote for them), so I have little hope in politics, although I am a very avid follower. Howard Dean is right about one thing. "Change does not come from Washington, D.C. Change comes from the bottom up."



ruveyn
Veteran
Veteran

User avatar

Joined: 21 Sep 2008
Age: 88
Gender: Male
Posts: 31,502
Location: New Jersey

13 Jul 2011, 4:39 pm

User1 wrote:
Randroid! Ha. That actually made me laugh.

I lean towards capitalism, because it has a proven track record of working, it allows freedom of choice, and it rewards those who benefit society by offering a service or good.

Also, capitalists are not against charity. They're against forced charity, which in essence is theft & redistribution. Liberals and Socialists like to take money out of other's pockets to fund charitable causes.

I'm more of a Libertarian, and I don't see Gary Johnson or Ron Paul winning (although I'll vote for them), so I have little hope in politics, although I am a very avid follower. Howard Dean is right about one thing. "Change does not come from Washington, D.C. Change comes from the bottom up."


Capitalism works much of the time, but not all of the time.

Socialism is doomed to fail because it demands that humans be selfless. That is impossible.

ruveyn



AstroGeek
Veteran
Veteran

User avatar

Joined: 28 Jan 2011
Age: 31
Gender: Male
Posts: 1,582

18 Jul 2011, 12:12 am

ruveyn wrote:
User1 wrote:
Randroid! Ha. That actually made me laugh.

I lean towards capitalism, because it has a proven track record of working, it allows freedom of choice, and it rewards those who benefit society by offering a service or good.

Also, capitalists are not against charity. They're against forced charity, which in essence is theft & redistribution. Liberals and Socialists like to take money out of other's pockets to fund charitable causes.

I'm more of a Libertarian, and I don't see Gary Johnson or Ron Paul winning (although I'll vote for them), so I have little hope in politics, although I am a very avid follower. Howard Dean is right about one thing. "Change does not come from Washington, D.C. Change comes from the bottom up."


Capitalism works much of the time, but not all of the time.

Socialism is doomed to fail because it demands that humans be selfless. That is impossible.

ruveyn

I think I must be the only cynic out there that is not right wing.