To: "permaculture" <permaculture@lists.ibiblio.org>
Subject: Re: [permaculture] Democracy and Capitalism are in contradiction
Date: Fri, 18 Jul 2003 09:40:38 -0700 (PDT)
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:
John Schinnerer, MA
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