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To: Askel5
Capitalism is the most moral economic system it leaves each individual free to plot his own economic destiny.
35 posted on 01/13/2002 9:16:59 AM PST by weikel
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To: weikel
Heil Weikel! Top o'the morning to you.

Capitalism is not the "most moral" system. It is more just than socialism and, indeed, incorporates many moral aspects: private property, private wealth, a free market.

To be truly moral, however, it must be tempered by a moral society unwilling to allow the purely materialistic capitalist system either to inform (or stunt) their consciences and values to the purely materialist OR to let capitalism's two fatal flaws -- rabid individualism and centralization -- run amok.

We have failed on all counts.

Given that we are now perhaps irredeemably stunted into confusing capitalism with freedom/demokracy and boxed into the purely material, it's quite doubtful we've the ammo or the spine to break the shackles now being fitted by formidable combination that is Banker & Proletariat.

55 posted on 01/13/2002 9:43:37 AM PST by Askel5
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