Ringer, among all the self serving crap on this thread, your post at least deserves a response.

You are quite correct in saying that capitalism provided prosperity, two hundred, one hundred, fifty, thirty years ago.
For most of that time we had an Empire to rob, a workforce for whom prosperity was only a dream, a population which dutifully died in Capitalism's wars.
The people in my section of society have never lived like kings, my life and the lives of my neighbours have been a constant struggle.
When my children were small I worked over 70 hrs a week plus a few nights till eleven o' clock.....not some desk job, but back breaking toil....laying 18"x 9"x9" concrete blocks, or mixing and screeding 100 sq yds of concrete.....Kings....you obviously haven't a clue.

Like many of my brothers and sisters, I sold my strength and life to bring up my family.
And that was in the good times for Capitalism, but the times they are a changin'
Our Empire has gone, we pay top dollar for everything we need from the East. We are uncompetitive in manufacturing and heavy industry.
Our new "liberal" ideology wants it all, without hard work or personal responsibility.
Capitalism has chewed us up and spat out the bones, just as it will do with all the nations and peoples waiting for the curse of development.

I can assure you that Capitalism has no sister, and liberal democracy is a mirage.....surely the political events of the last five years prove that conclusively.

Capitalism has no sister, but she has a child. Made in her own image, but without the old disguises....the faux democracy, the phoney liberalism.....the child is coming of age, and who do you think will give Fascism the biggest welcome into society....not the radicals from left or right,(they will be the first into the ovens), but the evolutionary, equality loving, centre left.

They say history always repeats itself!....Ake