I only know the AUS, UK and US circumstances well so maybe you were thinking of somewhere else So in conclusion more money charged for a lower standard of care with better scenery.Ĭapitalism is better than socialism period being less centralised it is harder for corruption to take hold and given the competitive nature most corruption is caught and dealt with, a blend of capitalism with a well planned social safety net and limited immigration would be the best solution.Įthnic superiority is not even a minor part of right wing politics the amount of ethnic supremacists in the right wing is incredibly small. I end up in the nicer private hospital next door in a nice 2 person room with this really funny guy from Guyana, unfortunately the ice machine in the private hospital is broken which is bad for me because both my kneecaps cap been basically “ripped off” and i need the ice to control the swelling or i was in a lot of pain. When i died 2 years ago and ended up in hospital (i live in aus) i was told point blank “can you please register under your private health cover because we can charge them more than the public healthcare system” which i did unfortunately. At the same time it leads to a system where thousands have no health cover and the rich can basically bribe themselves into better care. Take US vs Aus healthcare, the US system particularly regarding the research and development of drugs and other treatments seem to require the US system to generate the needed capital. Single mother in the uk getting 120k pounds a year…woops, people that could be working on welfare for years and years that is not right. Your talk of equality… i don’t even know where to start it’s not that clear to me what your arguing for, i think some level of social safety net is good the problem is the people implementing always seem to fuck up somehow. I only know the AUS, UK and US circumstances well so maybe you were thinking of somewhere else. The whole ethnic superiority motive? That’s a pretty major part of right wing politics even today.Įthnic superiority is not even a minor part of right wing politics the amount of ethnic supremacists in the right wing is incredibly small. Would unrestrained capitalism necessarily produce an equitable society? I don’t think so, and I don’t think history bears this out either. Would a more equitable distribution of wealth be a good thing? Yes, I think so.
Is private ownership of property a good thing? Yes, I think so.
Thomas Jefferson believed that every few years revolution would be a good thing. Should violence be used to achieve equitable circumstances? No, but possibly in very dire circumstances. So, I tend to think it’s more fruitful to talk specific policy questions. If you’re playing counting games, that one is up there. In the most striking example in a capitalist dictatorship, British policy in India also killed approx 35 million by starvation by some estimates. That, and the inability of the British government to provide any sort of relief or reform. This occurred largely because greedy landowners in Ireland created postage stamp sized lots, so that the only crop people could grow there was the potato. But there’s a good capitalist example of this in the Potato Famine, where approx 1 million people died. This is best exemplified on the communist side by the Great Leap Forward. Or even the 1 million deaths in India when Indians attempted to rebel against British East India company rule. That one can be directly attributed to capitalism. The other one that comes to mind is the Opium Wars. The 1953 Iranian coup de’tat by the United States and the UK spring to mind. Democratic countries generally don’t do it to its own people, but have done it to foreign countries through the mechanism of regime change. I think everyone who has any sort of empathy finds authoritarianism repulsive. I don’t think most people in democratic capitalist countries expressing an appreciation for Marx and Engels want to murder the rich, except in hyperbole. But there have been class struggles before Marx, and for this to happen, the underclass usually has to have some sort of grievance with the ruling class. You can maybe blame Marx for that, because he sees history as class struggle. I feel one should probably look at the reason why people were killed? What were the causes and motives? How do you talk about Hitler without mentioning the whole ethnic superiority motive? That’s a pretty major part of right wing politics even today. The socialism thing seems like a bit of a bait and switch.
It seems to me the nationalism bit is the motivating factor in nazi death tolls.
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