However, these arguments about ‘isms’ obscures the real issues: Rampant speculation supported by low tax rates and cheap credit will destroy any economic model, whether it is socialist like China or capitalist like the USA.

The US conservative think tanks continue this “Red Baiting” even after Russian communism is dead and China fills our Wallmart with their cheap goods. Why? Because they know that if Americans (i.e Teaparty) knew how Wall Street and Commercial Real Estate have gamed the tax code and use American savings to speculate, they would rebel.

Remember Engels’ great quote: The Capitalist will sell the hangman his own noose.

People refuse to do what is correct because they have no spiritual core.

Imagine the opposite happened, in the country of origin, not Hamburg, the other Burg, let me not be too explicit.

It was not Russia that screwed the US over, then, they might now try to.

The capitalist credo: ‘From each according to their want, to each according to their greed.”

Lots of morals to that story.

The old phrases of communism about “amoral capitalism”?

And people who have NOT done their own research…actually believe this? Capitalism can be regulated…the HUMAN BEING is the source of evil—or good…!

Just curious.
Does the book deal with the Chinese “marriage” of capitalism with communism?

You know…the people that fill much of our stores with THEIR goods, whom the US owes so much money to…and who (latest I heard) still sell us some rotten stuff…be it Florida’s infamous Chinese drywall…or bad honey or… (the list goes on)..

It’s a new twist on communism – using capitalism as their tool to maybe destroy (or at least disable) the US??

Am waiting to hear when the Chinese maybe get to drill in our plentiful fossil fuel sources—as part payment for the mega dollars they loaned us!

But dream the idealist dreams. Unrefined by your own research into old articles, books…to uncover what the past 100 or so years of communist and super socialist rule has done to the human race. The blood would fill rivers!!!

Find your secular “religion” of a workers’ paradise (which will turn into a worker-maintained LEADERS paradise)…

Ignore—-20th century history…and the HUGE multi millions of innocents murdered…by Lenin, Stalin, others…

Or…read up on Animal Farm…or buy the $1 DVD which sometimes shows up in mostly Chinese stocked WALMART…the DVD cartoon of ANIMAL FARM!!!

Or buy an old copy of The Gulag Archipelago by Solzhenitsyn and search for his Harvard Speech online!!!

Jamie Dimon has played Obama like a fiddle and megabanks couldn’t be more pleased with how the bailouts turned out. Meanwhile the health care bill is corporate welfare to big pharma, big insurance and hospitals. Just look at their stock price movements. Is it any wonder the health care bill was so opposed by many at leftish firedoglake.com?

Count me in that group. I wouldn’t call myself a Democrat, but I’m closer to being one than I was 3 years ago.

Neither are all, or even most, corporate chieftains rightist, as many of them have embraced, either functionally or explicitly, a central leftist plank — namely, the obsolescence of the nation-state and the desirability of open borders.