Where American Capitalism Fails And Rise Of A Social State.

The typical conservative response within the United States is that capitalism is God since a majority of the gibbering imbeciles are religious believing that it is also bestowed by God or the divine. If it isn’t that then capitalism is attributed to nature where it is a representation of the natural world itself where of course none of them it would seem are smart enough to see the irony in any of that. Since an early age Americans are told that American capitalism is what separates us from all other nations and is what makes us better than everybody else if not superior concerning that iconic thought of so called American exceptionalism yet since very recently it has become increasingly obvious it is this same pervasive socio economic ideology that is destroying our nation rotting from within. What is the response of capitalists seeing the obvious destructive tendencies of capitalism that they cannot deny publicly? They’ll insist that it isn’t the true uncorrupt form of capitalism stating that in order to fix the destructive tendencies of capitalism that we have currently we must return to a more purer state of capitalism! They call this impure form of capitalism crony-capitalism. If that is a case I just have one question, when has the purer form of capitalism ever existed historically before it devolved into crony- capitalism? The way I see it capitalism since its very inception has always been a form of crony capitalism since the very foundation of capitalism itself is a kind of cronyism and yes, it is capitalism itself that is destroying this nation!

Once more the narrative of working hard and gaining benefit through a capitalist system as a narrative no longer applies anymore in that if anything in the new era of economic globalism has effectively shown this. How are individuals suppose to work hard and benefit in this economic system where their entire national manufacturing, industrial, and production areas of their country has been outsourced overseas to other countries? What happens when all the high income and quality life fulfilling work is outsourced, made obsolete, replaced by computers, or replaced by machines? Then what? What happens when you deindustrialize an entire nation turning it into a decadent consumer nation of financial debt beholden to corporate banks that revolves around a self destructive service economy? What does the American conservative capitalist mind say then?

We need to start questioning various assumptions of capitalism and more importantly question the mentality that capitalism is inherently good or beneficial for a nation. I’m creating this thread today as an illustration of how capitalism isn’t good for a nation where in fact it is a poisonous ideology that only benefits a small portion of society where it isn’t life affirming of a nation whatsoever in that it is the path to national ruin.

Capitalism needs to be destroyed, not adjusted, not reformed, obliterated, and replaced by a form, or different forms of radical socialism in different parts of the world.

What are capitalism and socialism?

What do you guys think of my definitions?

Communism - gov controls 100% of means of production and keeps 100% of profits
Fascism - gov controls 100% of means of production and keeps <100% of profits
Socialism - gov controls <100% of means of production and keeps <100% of profits
Capitalism - gov controls 0% of means of production and keeps 0% of profits.

A communist gov owns the means of production while as fascist gov can dictate regulation as if it owned the means of production. A socialist gov can regulate many aspects of production, but not all, and the capitalist would never argue for regulation.

They seem to be definitive, accurate, and mutually exclusive definitions.

I kind of have my own, idiosyncratic way of defining these things.

Communism: state/centralized or decentralized democratic and egalitarian control of housing.

Syndicalism: state/centralized or decentralized democratic and egalitarian control of industry and commerce.

Socialism: state/centralized democratic and egalitarian control of money and resources generated from industry and commerce.

Capitalism, meaning 1: decentralized oligarchic and/or dictatorial and elitist control of housing, industry and/or commerce.

Capitalism, meaning 2: a partly free market with the four monopolies in place.

https://attackthesystem.com/2011/06/03/benjamin-tuckers-four-monopolies/

Corporatism: state/centralized oligarchic and/or dictatorial and elitist control of housing, industry, commerce, wealth and/or resources generated from industry and commerce.
Corporatism can take three major forms: corporations running the state for their own benefit, as they do in America, or the state running corporations for its own benefit, not for the benefit of the people, as they do in Russia, or a synthesis of the former and the latter, as they did in Nazi Germany and Fascist Italy.

Fascism: national corporatism and authoritarianism (authoritarianism: government gets involved in your personal life).

Nazism: racial fascism.

Zionism: Jewish racial fascism.

Individualism, meaning 1: self-employment, small business.

Individualism, meaning 2: a fully free market without the four monopolies in place.

No matter their constitutions or what they refer to themselves as, all governments tend towards fascism, there’s nothing special about capitalism.
If you start off with a mostly meaning 2 capitalism (a partly free market), after a while you’ll end up with a mostly meaning 1 capitalism (decentralized oligarchic control of the economy), and then from there corporatism (centralized oligarchic control of the economy), which’s exactly what happened in North America and Western Europe.
Today we have fascism lite, and tomorrow we will probably have it, unless something big happens.

Furthermore, the principles of capitalism arguably support slavery.
If you can sell your property, and you’re your own property, you can sell yourself, or sign a contract whereby a condition of breaking it is slavery.
And the offspring of your slaves are also yours.
Many capitalists agree with the above.
People who can’t fend for themselves, or consent, including children, wouldn’t have rights.
Animals wouldn’t have rights either, nor could nature be adequately protected.
If some corporation wanted to kill every last tiger and sell their fur, they could do that, or tear every last tree down in a rainforest.

The notion of ‘intellectual property’, and the notion of claiming something you personally, physically never occupied or used, let alone regularly occupy and use, is arguably a corruption and debasement of property, is unfree, inevitably leading to an unfair decentralized and partial monopolization of the economy, in turn leading to a centralized and near total monopolization of the economy.

Man that’s too complicated :open_mouth:

I wanted to boil it down to concise and, more importantly, mutually exclusive definitions with no overlap in what they mean. That is to avoid confusion and arguments. It’s like “perception, awareness and consciousness” have overlapping definitions and are interchangeable so that no one can really tell what anyone else is talking about without first agreeing on what the words mean and how each is different from the other.

For instance we can’t say that a capitalist desires some regulation because then it’s a slippery slope on where to draw the line determining how much governmental regulation a capitalist wants. It’s far easier to simply call a person who desires ANY regulation a socialist because the only reason to desire regulation is for social reasons and not capital reasons. If said socialist wants 100% totalitarian control, then he is a fascist unless the said socialist wants complete government ownership in which case he is referred to as a communist.

The difference between fascism and communism is business owners keep profits (minus taxes) in fascism while they do not own businesses under communism and there is no profit to keep.

According to Peter Schiff, Fascism is better than communism because although the gov still has total control, fascism takes advantage of the fact that a business owner thinks he is running his own business and will put more effort into it, so it’s leveraging a psychological aspect of humanity for profit. Much like the mafia shake-downs of businesses who exercise totalitarian control by means of a gang of thugs, but allow the businesses to run in order to generate profit in which to steal.

Capitalism and communism needs to be eradicated as neither do anything in elevating humanity. The only kind of economies that works are mixed economies that have markets but also have a socialist system in place to elevate the needs of its citizens. The state however must control, regulate, and dictate the direction of the market in the protection of its citizens along with the nation itself. We’ve seen what happens time and time again when markets become individualized in that powerful wealthy influential individuals will promote their own selfish interests above the nation state and harm the general population in the process, all markets need to be brought under heel by the state so that this never happens again.

Anybody that promotes their own self interests above the state and the collective general public of the nation are enemies of both. They should be viewed as hostile enemies of the state and be treated as such.

Planned out centrally organized economies are the only way to go.

My kind of state is fascist, monarchical, socialist, nationalist, collectivist, ethnically/culturally protectionist, pro-family, and regulated controlled markets. If it becomes insufficient that individuals can properly control business, corporations, or industry themselves the state will intervene in nationalizing them under the head of government.

I also believe in labor and trade unions where workers have rights in the workplace having bargaining power for better wages, education, planned retirement, family planning, unemployment insurance, healthcare, and preferential treatment financially in order to have financial savings for themselves.

I’m kind of torn between a couple of ideas I have.
I’m going to have to give it some more thought, and get back to you.

It’s refreshing to engage with someone who can think outside the liberal, conservative and libertarian camps, people seem to neatly fall into these days.

I’ll say this: I’m against capitalism, and corporatism, not just a little, but nearly 100%, and libertarians, conservatives and even liberals are offshoots of capitalism, and corporatism.

Fascist economics can be defined as a mixed economy, with capitalist, corporatist and socialist elements, which’s what we have today, but much more capitalism and corporatism than socialism, whereas I’d have the reverse: much more individualism (a free market that’s difficult to monopolize) and socialism (social welfare, running corporations in the interests of employees, and consumers) than capitalism (a free market that’s easy to monopolize) and corporatism (corporate welfare, running corporations in the interest of employers).
I’m also a nationalist, an environmentalist, an ascetic and a minimalist.
As for the state, I’d either have militias run things, or a philosophical oligarchy.

Fascism is what Mussolini referred to as class collaboration, as opposed to class competition.
In a fascist economy, ideally it’s very hard to move up, or down the economic ladder.
eventually fascism could evolve from a class to a caste society, like Indians and Japanese had.

I am 100% anti-capitalism.
There’d be no capitalism whatsoever in my economy.
While I have to think these things through more, here’s what I might do:

I define communism as democratic, or at the very least egalitarian control of housing, which I’m in favor of.
Communism can be authoritarian or voluntary, centralized or decentralized.
At this point, I think I’d have authoritarian and centralized communism, meaning I’d takeover part, or all of the existing housing industry, or I’d print billions of dollars debt free (I’d abolish banks and taxation, that’s another thing, banks and taxation don’t need to exist, the government can be its own bank, and print as much money as it needs, it can also protect peoples money, and loan them interest free money) and build millions of new apartments.
I’d hire millions of workers to build them, pay them well, and sell them and others nice, environmentally friendly apartments for cheap.

I’d also take over part or all of the food industry, and do the same thing I did for housing for food, as well as all essential industries.
I would keep state healthcare and education, but I’d diversify them, so alt science and medicine were more represented in healthcare and education, and philosophy in education.

As for inessential, private industries, I’d either abolish them, or allow them within limits.
The limits would either exist within a free market without the four monopolies, so not a capitalist free market, meaning there’d natural limits on how much property a person could have, and/or I’d regulate them directly, to make sure the inessential, private sector is both fair, environmentally friendly, and not (mass) producing things that’re too detrimental to peoples health and wellbeing.
So the essentials, food, housing, healthcare, education, they’d definitely be controlled, and the inessentials either wouldn’t exist, or they’d be naturally, or artificially (macro)managed.

Agreed.

If I was going to design a state, it’d be a constitutional and philosophical democratic oligarchy.
The constitution would help prevent the oligarchs from amassing much more wealth, resources and power than the people.
Constitutionally there’d be no billionaires, perhaps not even multimillionaires, or oligarchs who could afford many times more than they need.
The oligarchs would elect a consul, and the people would elect a consul, so there’d be two consuls, like in Ancient Rome, and they could veto one another.
Likewise there’d be two senates, the first senate would comprise all the oligarchs, the second senate would be elected by the people.
As for who gets to be an oligarch, it’d be decided by some combination of merit and nepotism.
Oligarchs would be educated and trained in philosophy, soldiery and statecraft.

As for armaments, while the people should have some, the oligarchs will of course have more.

Nationaism: isolationism, existing minorities are fine, but no more immigration of people, or emigration of jobs, unless absolutely necessary, as much economic self-sufficiently as possible.

Science would have to be green, scientists and inventors wouldn’t be allowed to jeopardize the environment with their toxic tech, nature must be protected and preserved.

As for traditional family values, I am pro-abortion and planned parenthood.
everyone who can work should.
There should be a two child policy for people who can’t work.
These days the birthrate is low among whites, and with no new immigrants, we probably won’t have to worry about a population boom, but I am concerned about overpopulation, and its impact on the environment.

As for men and women, in the inessential, private sector, men and women can take any job they want, but in the essential, public sector, men may be given priority for certain jobs, like philosophy, statecraft and especially soldiery, and women may be given priority for other jobs, like educating the young, and working with the elderly, the mentally and physically ill and disabled.

While homosexuality isn’t bad and should be tolerated, it’s not equal to heterosexuality, and should probably be kept private.
The same goes for prostitution and transsexuals/genders, they should be tolerated but kept private.
Gay couples should either not be allowed to adopt, or heterosexual couples should be given priority.
There shouldn’t be gay marriage.

As for food and drugs, the state will almost exclusively produce natural, wholesome food and drugs, few, if any modern, pharmaceutical scientific drugs or whatever you want to call them.
The inessential, private sector may be regulated if it produces a lot of really bad food and drugs.

No, there is no underlying socialist system in place under totalitarian rigged democracy regimes in the west. Capitalist and corporatist programs in place, yes, socialist programs? No.

State controlled markets are extremely hard and almost impossible to monopolize. So called laissez faire free markets are the easiest to monopolize which is why they prevail currently.

I have no idea why you see oligarchic societies as a good thing. They’re destructive in nature and always lead to the ruin of any given society. There can be no class collaboration without socialism where instead you only have one group that subjugates all others.

I am all for egalitarianism in the sense of leveling the economic playing field and help the lower classes reaching their highest potential however egalitarianism in total that is to say complete egalitarianism is impossible. Like I said elsewhere you can minimize and limit social inequality as much as you can which should be the goal but you can never eradicate it completely. That is why communism fails and I don’t think I have to warn you of the dangers or menace of cultural marxism. Also note that behind every communist movement there is a Bolshevik style political vanguard which isn’t coincidental either. Communism and Bolshevikism has always primarily been a Jewish movement. (Capitalism also as a remnant of renaissance merchants.)

I am pro-life and anti abortion but with some level of exceptions for when women’s health are at risk, abhorrent physical mutations, or rape. Also, no woman is allowed a job, occupation, own property, have a banking account, or the ability to attend college without having a minimal of two children first. If they refuse all of that they better have a male caretaker willing to take care of them for the rest of their lives. Exceptions would be made for women that are infertile, elderly, mentally ill, or physically disabled only. This will help with the west’s demographic population disaster. I am a big promoter of the nuclear family concept and early marriage.

You will never get rid homosexuality as they’ve been around since time immemorial however they shouldn’t be promoted publicly or be made culturally acceptable as they are a demographic disaster concerning socio economic activity within society. They should be limited to the closet or personal activity and nothing more. They shouldn’t be allowed to adopt children either. They’ll be resigned as being private social pariahs.

In modern democracies constitutions are ratified or ignored by corporate oligarchs which is just one example of the ineffective nature of democracy as a whole. You want to put oligarchy in its place? Threaten them with public execution or life in a labor prison camp, problem solved.

I’m all for citizens having guns and gun rights to defend themselves but the civilian population shouldn’t have military grade weapons. Then again I am all for a military police state along with a national secret police organization that takes out domestic trouble makers swiftly and quickly.

At this moment all nations in the west are posed to collapse where afterwards civil war in numerous nations will be inevitable. When this happens entire nations will splinter into several fragments where with ethnic balkanization undoubtedly this will split on ethnic cultural lines. Other races or ethnicities don’t concern me, they’re on their own to fend for themselves.

As far as immigration is concerned no migrants or immigrants of non-European stock. Also, all Jews and zionists would be kicked out where travel will be made available for them on a one way trip to Israel. They have their own nation now, let the Lebanese, Palestinians, Iranians, Iraqis, and Syrians deal with them for a change. I would like to see them round up on huge fleets of naval cargo ships and transported to Israel unharmed or in good health of course. They can all fuck off in Israel without any military, diplomatic, or financial support of the west. Let the desert of Israel provide for them as God’s so called chosen people.

On science I am also of the green mindset but I would effectively purge all transhumanism ideologues as I don’t support the technological automation replacement of human beings. Only science that promotes the dignity, protection, and value of all human beings will be allowed.

@Zero Sum

Right, some people should be wealthier and more powerful than others, if they work harder, and smarter at producing things people need, that’re good for them, not so much at producing things people desire, that’re bad for them, but not hundreds-thousands of times wealthier and more powerful like some people are in our rigged casino economy, and so long as people work, they should be entitled to a decent standard of living, more like our standard of living used to be in the mid 20th century, say 1950-1980, before the Reagan/Thatcher era.

Yes. Also, I think as I’ve said in the past higher education should be free and accessible to all. This will in effect keep social inequality in check where the lowest members of society can earn a way toward upward social mobility. There should also be more job or occupational apprentice programs as well. On the job training should be encouraged everywhere.

@Zero Sum

Because I believe we’re overpopulated, I’m not encouraging reproduction.

I’m indifferent to homosexuality, I’m neither opposing, nor promoting it.

I don’t like putting all my eggs in one basket, or in the hands of a single individual, that’s why I’m balancing philosophical oligarchy with a constitution and democracy.

I’d have about as much weapon control as the US has today, or perhaps a little less.

As we’re overpopulated, I’d have nearly zero immigration, and when I did permit it, while I would prioritize Europeans over others, as Canada is still a Country with a predominantly White, Atheist heritage, I wouldn’t bar others from coming here altogether.
As for Jews, so long as they’re not Zionists, and they don’t cause any mischief, or demand any special privileges/treatment, they can stay.

Agreed.

Over population is a bit of a myth actually, watch the documentary entitled, “demographic winter.” You still haven’t presented an argument as to why democracy or an oligarchy is better.

There is no such thing as non mischief or non problem making Jews. Good luck with that, in both of our theoretical outlines of the kind of nations we would both want to live in I think mine would fare better. :wink:

After the democracy in your nation fails (as all democracies do) being that we’re friends Gloominary I’d let you immigrate over to mine. :wink:

@Zero Sum

Sounds interesting, I’ll check it out.

That being said, my philosophy of minimalism is deep-rooted for me, it’s not just the socioeconomic injustices of capitalism I despise, it’s the rampant hedonism and materialism, the destruction of the environment and the extinction of thousands of species.
Capitalism, socioeconomic injustice, hedonism, materialism, globalization, overpopulation, resource depletion, transhumanism, they all go together for me, for the most part.
I’d like to see a greener, more organic civilization, one more in harmony with itself and the environment, existing as just another part of nature, instead of in opposition to it.

I have several arguments, I just can’t be bothered presenting them to you, you’ve probably heard them before anyway, in fact you were an anarchist for a decade, you probably made the same arguments against others advocating for the national socialist dictatorship you’re now advocating for, and besides, I tend to be less argumentative with my friends anyway, preferring either to discuss if there’s mutual receptivity, or agree to disagree. :wink:

I know what you mean, but one thing I’ve learned from studying Jews over the years, is you don’t want to make martyrs of them.
No tribe on earth can play the victim card a 10th as good as they can, they’ve had 4000 years of practice.
I think the best thing to do is to absolutely ignore them, neither go to the extreme Hitler did, and try to get rid of them, assuming that’s what he tried to do, which’s another topic for another thread, or roll the red carpet out for them like Trump’s America does today.

Likewise, if your utopia should ever become a dystopia, you’re always welcome here in the national socialist democratic oligarchy of Canada. :wink: