From: J. R. Molloy (jr@shasta.com)
Date: Sat Sep 23 2000 - 16:10:09 MDT
From: "Barbara Lamar" <shabrika@juno.com>
> > Capitalists have never:
> >
> > a) operated concentration camps
>
> How about what was done to US citizens of Japanese ancestry during the
> 1940's?
Government did that, not capitalists.
> > b) exterminated people they refused to do business with
>
> How about US aid to military in places such as San Salvador, Mexico,
> Guatemala?
Government did that, not capitalism.
> > c) exterminated anyone who looked at or talked badly about the
> > bosses
>
> How about unruly slaves?
Capitalism does not enslave people. It pays them wages.
> > d) waged war against people
> > etc etc etc
>
> How about the USA/CSA war of the 1860's? How about the "war on drugs?"
Capitalism markets drugs, it doesn't wage war against them. The Civil War was
about federalism not capitalism.
--J. R.
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