Capitalism in Crisis - Was Marx Right? 1/5

Hannah Sell speaking at a London Socialist Party public meeting October 2008. Part 1

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News & Politics

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• Capitalism
• Socialism
• Marx

[luvsufc]

i am a 15 year framer/carpenter i have framed thousands upon thousands of houses but never in my fucking life was able to afford a house!!!!!!!!!! ironic huh, now i know there are some capitalist pigs will say, well you should have managed your money better,or get a better job blah fucking blah. here's a fact IT TAKES MONEY TO MAKE MONEY!!!!!!!!! so what ya going to do when ya start out with no money????????

[theH0UNDSofD00M]

Right, so you advise that we all work 24/7 while the rich watch a pat our backs, congratulating us on how docile we are? You don't sound like one cool Greek to me.

[Counterreactionary]

Capitaism ain't bad, because I(!), IIIII, get by, I can pay my rents, I got a job, I... Typical bourgeois logic, always focused on the one individual, the one succesful person, not the masses in a broader picture.

[myboycoltmccoy]

Capitalism really isn't that bad in America. I'm 27 and I'm about to buy my first house. America has lost it's way since Bush became president but we can find our way back. The problem here isnt that capitalism doesn't work, the problem is that we want to police the world. This "nation building" is destroying our country (I live in the U.S). If we just focused on making America better and didn't try to enforce middle eastern coutnries to be like us than America would be much better off.

[DAngelo136]

@saundersDave11 In the U.S. there have been roll backs of the modest restrictions since the 1980's. President Kennedy lowered the capital gains tax rate, President Carter deregulated the airlines, Reagan, lowered the top marginal rate for income taxes; his administration eliminated or did not enforce financial laws governing banks, President Clinton reformed welfare and implemented NAFTA, Governor Bush, bailed out the banks, and President Obama has maintained the policies.

[LLit11]

oh the old ever surfacing question, of which every new affirmation was suffocated in some new triumph of private enterprise. face defeat, finally. capitalism. it works, bitches.

[Iraqisocialist]

@price777999 exactly. That's how capitalism works and even here, in the US, it's the same way. Just work and work but never have money. People work all their lives and can't make it. I see people who work their arses off yet can't fix a broken window on their car. They put a trash bag on it to cover it. This is a hard working person I am talking about. The capitalistic pig will say "stop being lazy" while they make millions or more on our expense and through scams.

[RedCommanderShors]

Ура товарищи!