permaculture

["John Schinnerer" <john@eco-living.net>]

Aloha,

>>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.)

Not sure I see the difference here...  :-/  Doesn't matter what it's
called.  Actions talk, BS political buzzwords walk.  The Chinese dictators
(among many others) call their system a "People's Republic"...

Meanwhile, a few relatively brief and explanatory discourses on systems of
politics and commerce:

Politics:
http://members.fortunecity.com/alberteinstein/e=mc2/laughs/politics_defined.htm

Systems of government:
http://www.thecapitol.net/Recommended/twocows.htm

(Mostly) systems of commerce:
http://bovination.com/cows.jsp



John Schinnerer, MA
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