"IF capitalism is tempered by concern for the common good, it can work pretty well.
-Joe-"
I have little doubt that many of the people who founded Capitalism - the people who put into motion the Industrial Revolution - had the common good in mind.
Capitalism has moved away from that, has abandoned any pretence of operating for people as a whole, and is now dedicated to betting the lot of the very wealthy
Most of the things working people fought for over the centuries to better their lot have now gone - the right to work, the right to have a degree of security of employment, a voice in the workplace, social housing, a reasonably comfortable standard of living after retirement... all gone or going, despite the fact that technology has put it all within our grasp.
The only thing that remains is our (Britain's) health service, which is constantly under threat, and even staying healthy has become divided on a class basis again, as it was before the war,
Society is moving backward as technology advances - we have become victims of progress rather than beneficiaries.
The Communist Dream failed - for a whole bunch of reasons, internal as well as external, but the people of extremely poor and repressed countries like Cuba benefited from a watered-down version of it.
Bobad and the like point to Stalin as an example of Communism - he wasn't - he was an extreme example of what was going wrong and his victims were just as much of the left as they were of the right.
Stalin's greatest opponent was a socialist dreamer who ended up with an ice-pick buried in his head in Mexico - these people of the right conveniently forget that when they are defending their own deformed and decayinbg system.
They also forget that the Right had their own version of Stalin -in Nazi Germany - a product of German Industrial Capitalism seeking to expand.
But as they say here "don't mention the war"
Jim Carroll