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Market Totalitarianism

posted 9 years ago by ivitt
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or market statism. "Free Markets" always head that way. Once the business owner rackets up profit, they become capitalists and starts swindling multiple industries. Then they decide to take over countries. The Catholic Church,Rothchilds and British Empire create the Gold Standard in 1694 managed by the Bank of England. By 1750 "markets" as we know them today are created. Though it goes back earlier to Amsterdam when Sephardic immigrants kicked out of Italy started "Capitalism" and many of the "effects" start there. The Catholic Church at first fought against it, by 1690's, they joined it and the gold standard was born. The United States declared war on England because of the Gold Standard interfering with colonial scrip they had used for decades. Not taxation like the free market intellectuals would have you believe.

Put it this way, free market intellectuals tells us to destroy our national government and "return" everything to state governments in the republic........how nice. That divide and conquers Americans. With no Federal Government, Plutocracy can obtain the rule of law and destroy "bad states" which refuse their rule. The people are nothing more than serfs in a vastly smaller economy made for a few.

In Rollerball, genocide by the 100 millions was necessary. Now they have their serfs well maintained.

[–] HowYaLikeDemApplesWill 9 years ago

Put it this way, free market intellectuals tells us to destroy our national government and "return" everything to state governments in the republic.

1 - By using the term "free market intellectuals", you have exposed your agenda.

2 - No free market advocates I have ever known, heard, or studied, advocated for the destruction of the national government...so your strawman premise and everything that follows, is a canard.

Whose idea was it for the word "Lisp" to have an "S" in it?

[–] foster11 8 years ago

More like Market Socialism

Listen to Houseman in the beginning when he talks to Jonathon, he explains it

The corporation provides for everything

All they ask is you never question their decisions

Sounds like the Democratic Party

You don't have to stand tall, but you do have to stand up!

[–] super-joey 7 years ago

It's too easy to reduce this film to leftwing propaganda because it uses so-called "corporations" as the powers-that-be. So extreme leftists who despise capitalism say, "See? This movie GETS it!"

But what's actually on display in this film is also the rightwing fear: A big, powerful entity that takes away individual freedom, promising security and prosperity in exchange for individual rights.

This movie is brilliant because it shows big government (the stereotypical leftist ideal) and big business (the stereotypical rightwing ideal) as two sides of the same coin. In that way it actually mirrors Catholic social teaching... since you bring up the Catholic Church... which states that socialism and capitalism are both wrong. Big government and big business can both become (and often do become) corrupt poison to a free society if the people lose their power.