GRITtv: The End of Capitalism? Alexander Cockburn and David Harvey

[jeresdc]

SOLUTIONS! -> Zeitgeist: Moving Forward documentary

[iseecheese]

3:50 the last thing we need is 1930''s communists left ideas, we saw exaclty at that time what hte result was, other than that these guys seem good,

[lumeriam]

yes RICH Americans need to learn to live less heavily on the Planet. The rest of us are due for more sustenance.

[EmmaYaBasta]

Homeowning is an peculiar US fetish. US society is mired in debt & its infrastructure is crumbling. Much like the British Empire before it, US capitalism finds itself overextended as it is bogged down in predatory wars it cannot win & a military that is stretched to the limit; empires are expensive beasts. Unless something is done to fix structural economic problems, the economic decay is just going to get worse & all of this debt is eventually going to collapse our entire financial system.

[iseecheese]

@EmmaYaBasta , homeowning has been around in most cultures since the beginning of time, families would stay in the same house for 100's of years normally if it was a strong structure like a cave or stone or brick, the usa just made people become middle class from being poor so average people could afford building their own house because they were sick of that not existing in elitist europe/ asia for 1000's of yrs, its not a fetish is a basic human right, but i do agree no empire last forever

[rachelgolem]

FOLLOW ME COMRADE!!!!!

TO THE EMPTY FOOD STORE!!!!

[pyannaguy]

The whole system is based on fake scarcity. The default reality for every species on Earth is that there is food and shelter to be had, generally. But damn near half of humanity is chronically hungry and under-housed. Smartest species?

Competition shouldn't drive things - cooperation should. We have the technology to feed everybody, control birth rates, have decent, adequate shelter and all the rest. Greed, fear and narrow-minds are in the driver's seat. That HAS to go...or we're all doomed.

[rbdgirl12]

@pyannaguy man u really are stupid, hun? scarcity is a myth ? lol... i don't even fell the need to answer that. you have a 19 century mind economics. congrats!

[pyannaguy]

@rbdgirl12 I'm talking about the fake scarcity that keeps close to half the world hungry when there's a rise in the military budget every year, and one of the biggest advertising buyers are the weight loss industry (and Fast Food, of course).

There's always plenty of everything for the rich and powerful

[WorldPeace4All6]

@rbdgirl12

He is correct about there not being a scarcity in food. More than enough food is produced to feed the entire world. There is no shortage of food. Capitalism prevents people from eating.

[manfromsnowy]

The pool of Lefties is pretty shallow, yes we need people who don't think along old lines .

the problem is the entrenched power elite would rather have power than change................

I am afraid that Mao said power comes through the barrel of a gun . hopefully we will not have to prove him right.

[jbearden]

@manfromsnowy You are actually too stupid to speak on this matter, yet you blabber on.

[jamesarongray]

This is the kinda cock burn i want! :P

[inspirediam]

PS: The objective of the Federal Researve is to keep conditioning us to believe this illusion...yet, when you get a loan to buy a home, you bank does not even have the money to loan you. They give you a note, and then they put CREDIT down on there books.

[inspirediam]

PPS: Thus, the actual note/agreement is null and void. The bank is supposed to have actual cash/GOLD to back what it loans you. There was actually a foreclosure case in which the dependent won and was not foreclosed on, because this individual saw through the illusion. This system was set up to keep people in debt and enslaved to corporations.

[inspirediam]

Money is an illusion, in a system the perpetuates greed, pain, and suffering worldwide. The Federal Reserve does not have gold to back all this PAPER it prints. It is all an ILLUSION.

[canaan1967]

Good discussion thank you

[cosmicviewer477]

Americans simply need to learn to get by with less. I share a car with my roommate. Heck, I barely use a personal automobile now. I consume meat-based products a few times a week, as opposed to every day, and I eat out ONLY on special occasions, and guess what? I haven't died. It is possible. Harvey is right, everyone doesn't need to own a home, and I'll add to that: everyone doesn't need three-quarters of the stuff they think they do. A renewed sense of simplicity is what we need.

[ConstructiveMinds100]

@cosmicviewer477 So you are telling that one person can have 100 houses and other people can rent a room when they are in 40's. Could please clarify your way of thinking.

[cosmicviewer477]

@ConstructiveMinds100 Oh no, that is certainly NOT what I'm suggesting. What I am suggesting is that we need to starve the system by slowly checking out of it. In other words, let the rich battle with the rich, while the rest of us stop feeding the system that they have created to enslave us by living more simply. That is what I'm suggesting.

[Jelperman]

Why no mention of the fact that Alexander Cockburn is Laura Flanders' uncle?

[AnarchyDavey]

She's mentioned it on a previous show. There's also Andrew and Patrick Cockburn. ;o)

[S2Cents]

I like the jacket. Cockburn is a savvy observer of the American political scene and gets how the powers that be stick it to the working (wo)man. Same w/ Harvey.