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> On Mar 31, 9:45=A0am, Jerry Kraus <jkraus_1...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> > On Mar 31, 10:47=A0am, forbisga...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> > > On Mar 31, 7:50=A0am, Jerry Kraus <jkraus_1...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> > > > Obviously, if everything is "Capital", then we are all
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> > > > by defintion. =A0So, there ARE no other economic systems.
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> > > To the extent one produces based upon one's own capital one
> > > is a capitalist. =A0Most of us are capitalist to a limited
> > > extent related to our retirement and to our futzing aroud
> > > the house.
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> > So, in what possible sense were Mao Tse Tung, Joseph Stalin, Vladimir
> > Lenin or Karl Marx not Capitalists, by the definition of Capitalist
> > economists? =A0Everything everyone does must be based on Capital,
> > according to their definitions.
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> These people were not capitalist because they didn't believe
> in private owner****p of capital. =A0All but Marx are sometimes
> called State Capitalists, that is the owner****p of capital
> falls into the hands of the state and is controlled by its
> power structure. =A0Marx envisioned the state fading away.
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> Marxims will never work because different people have different
> abilities and many are greedy. =A0The state cannot fade away.
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> The rest of the poeple you mention found another way to
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I think you'll find that virtually no one outside of the American
professional economics community accepts that "everything is
Capital". The concept would be considered psychotic: no morals, no
thought, no religion, no creativity, no insight, no inspiration etc.
You may babble incoherently about attributing precise market values to
all of these things but that is all it is: incoherent babbling. Such
madness does tend to explain the excesses of certain elements of the
business community however, and the dangerous influences they
sometimes have over government policies.
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