James J. Hughes <jhughes@changesurfer.com> Wrote:
>The comment was made that no capitalist ever forced people into a
>concentration camp. Perhaps not.
Only perhaps?
>They just exploited the labor of the slaves the concentration
> camp owners made available to them. And supported the rise and Reichs of the
> concentration camp creators. And gave money to paramilitary organizations
> that abducted and killed organizers that opposed the concentration camps.
It's interesting, whenever somebody wants to show how evil corporations are,
they always do exactly the same thing, they come up with a long list of rotten
things that governments do. Go figure. Granted, few companies actively opposed
these monstrous regimes, but that's not quite the same thing as instigating it now is it,
and anyway can you really blame them for not playing the hero, in most cases it
would be economic if not actual suicide.
> Capitalism has no ethics
Unlike dictators and politicians who's pristine morality is legendary.
>and has no necessary relationship to liberal democracy.
Well yes, but you almost make that sound like a bad thing.
>All they [capitalists] care about is their ability to generate and keep profit.
Would you rather have the world run by people who want to save your soul, or
make you embrace the one true church, or save you from books that are bad
for you, or think it would be good for you to died gloriously for an abstraction in a land
you'd never heard of? I'd much rather they just worry about making money, they can't
get into too much trouble that way. I don't want the powers that be to "help" me, after all,
the farmer doesn't love me but thanks to capitalism he puts food on my table.
John K Clark jonkc@att.net
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