permaculture

[Paul Kosuth <prkosuth@ll.net>]

robscott@sdf.lonestar.org wrote:

> I use the term "democracy" to refer to a social system in which the
> participants as a whole determine how the system operates.
> I use the term "capitalism" to refer to an economic system in which the
> owners of capital determine how the system operates.
>
>  
isn't capitalism the economic system with an emphasis on creating 
surplus value and when this surplus value is sold the benefits go to the 
"owners" of the operation rather than the producers of the value (the 
workers.) I strongly agree that capitalism is an economic system but not 
with your specific definition. Rather than a linking of democracy and 
capitalism I see both as being very separate. Democracy is a method of 
choice, capitalism is one of the choices. Which, to me, make life in 
good ol' USA so frustrating when our "leaders" equate democracy and 
capitalism. I keep hoping to vote in communism but I'm not holding my 
breath.

Paul Kosuth