Don Blankenship: 'Survival Of The Most Productive'

http://wonkroom.thinkprogress.org/2010/04/08/blankenship-survival-fittest/ Killer coal baron Don Blankenship describes his philosophy of the world philosophy most clearly in a 1986 documentary on his role crushing the union miners of Blackberry Creek, saying that "everybody's going to have to learn to accept" that the United States is ruled by the law of "survival of the fittest":

"What you have to accept in a capitalist society, generally, is that I always make the comparison it's like a jungle, where a jungle is survival of the fittest. Unions, communities, people, everybody's going to have to learn to accept that in the United States you have a capitalist society. And that capitalism from a business viewpoint is survival of the most productive. And you may have a year, two years, five year periods where lesser productive companies or people have benefit. But in the long term, it's going to be the most productive people who benefit."

For information on the film, "Mine War on Blackberry Creek," contact Anne Lewis at alewis615@earthlink.net

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[Ms2blackcats]

what is the idiot chattering about now?

[SeanFrenette]

To paraphrase a great quote: "Productivity for productivity's sake is the ideology of the cancer cell." and also, Albert Einstein, "Capitalism is economic anarchy." Is so-called "conscious capitalism" our only way out of this mess?

[lordhighexecutioner]

Then I don't accept a capitalist society. Most Americans would not accept a system where they are supposed to be sacrificed so if there was democracy, there would be no capitalist society there either.

[sz42781]

Why dont you stick your scrawney ass a mile below the earth in a mine, and get a miners viewpoint, before giving me a capitalists point of view!