Posted on 12/10/2014 4:02:40 PM PST by governsleastgovernsbest
A segment on today's Ed Show was very instructive as to what lies not far beneath the surface for many in the current protest movement.
Two guests, discussing Ferguson and Staten Island, agreed that a key problem in America is . . . capitalism. First up was Rosa Clemente, a "hip hop activist" and 2008 Green Party VP candidate: "Capitalism, I think that is the institution all over this country. It is really the oppressive force." Next, Georgetown Prof. Marcia Chatelain, who said that the current moment has revealed "an incredible critique of capitalism that it isn't just police brutality but the way people are forced to live." Your $40,000/year tuition at work!
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So this is what much of the current protest movement is really about: a criticism of capitalism? Ping to Today show list.
Why don’t they just come out and blame it on “The Jews”?
Capitalism created the bounty of food you graze on daily from the food troughs called buffets.
Is this Asthma Awareness Week? I keep seeing all these “Can’t Breathe” T shirts on TV news.
There is no understanding that there are two ways of obtaining wealth. Through killing and taking it, Pillage and plunder, or through capitalism.
The problem these clowns have is that “capitalism” produces the things they wish to “redistribute,” but they are too dim-witted to comprehend it.
MSNBC you so CRAZY
They should have a “Can’t Compete” t-shirt for the anti-capitalists
More like a Hip Po activist but hippos are smarter than this dumbass Green fool. Then again, the Green Party has degenerated so much from running hardcore Trotskyite communist Peter Camejo as their VP candidate along with Pres. candidate Ralph Nader in 1992 or so, to this water buffalo.
Give me a good commie any day. Infantile leftists bore the crap out of me.
I have been arguing for some time here that the guiding light of the Dem Party, Obama and the current Ferguson hysteria is Karl Marx.
: "Capitalism, I think that is the institution all over this country. It is really the oppressive force." Next, Georgetown Prof. Marcia Chatelain, who said that the current moment has revealed "an incredible critique of capitalism that it isn't just police brutality but the way people are forced to live."
What she is saying is that free enterprise and property rights (which is what we have not capitalism as characterized by Marx) is too Free and she can't function. For her to feel comfortable we must have socialism, planned outcomes, theft-to-the-result-of-equal-poverty.
Typical pukeage from MSNBC.
Funny thing is - while these SFB’s are dissing capitalism - Eric Garner was (sorta) a role model for Capitalism.
Doing his best to avoid the Big Government system with oppressive taxation, he was out on the streets making a living the best way a “brother” can.
Nice!
Oh yes, capitalism is the problem and communism, which has failed miserably, everywhere it has been tried, is the answer.
Why are people so stupid? (rhetorical)
There are places in this world were ambition is a bad thing. Mother’s correct their children if they see any traces of it.
And socialism and communism have proven to be so much better wherever it is tried.
A blind hatred of capitalism. Put in mind that capitalism is all about a natural inclination in people to place value on something. Even so-called Communists eventually got corrupted and brought down by the capital that they tried to pretend did not exist. Denying that capitalism exists is stupid, people assign value to objects, might as well take note of that, and keep an honest, orderly, system at that, rather than hate with blindness.
The right people just haven’t been in charge.
I don’t call it Capitalism anymore, i call it “Voluntary Goods Exchange”.
I like to see the morons try to put a bad spin on that term, we need to start OWNING the language
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