What the hell? Whats with this idea that the more **** you own, the more people you exploit, and the fatter your wallet, the bigger success you are in life. It's despicable.

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Well, tell me what your idea of sucess is.

Pretty much everything OPPOSITE of what I mentioned. The more people you help, the more wealth you spread, the better person you are. I don't care how nice your car is, how big your house is, if I see someone driving a Ferrari around, I dont think "Wow what a success he must be." No, I think "Wow, what a jackass."

The problem, as I see it, is corporatism, not capitalism. Corporations are an artificial structure expressly designed to avoid individual or collective liability for corporate actions. I believe multi-national corporations actually prefer authoritarian governments because they provide labor peace through suppression of the labor force. Since they are, technically, citizens of the country of their incorporation, they are heir to all the rights of property available to such citizens. Simultaneously, because they are not real persons, they do not serve in the armed forces , but can obtain contracts from that government for profit. Their only alliegance is to their board & shareholders and their only motive to make the greatest amount of profit possible. When you have Jack Welch, former Chairman of GE, wishing in an interview that their factories could be built on barges so they could be towed to the part of the world where labor is cheapest and you have a race to the bottom. Now with those corporations hiring their own mercenary armies, they are becoming de facto states themselves.

The demographic fact is that overpopuation, resource exhaustion & the nature of corporate growth are leading to a two-tier society with the wealthy power elite living in their private reserves, deaf to the cries of human suffering from the vast majority living in grinding poverty and despair. At least with feudalism & the Divine Right of Kings, there was noblesse oblige. The nobility had a religious obligation to care for the poor & downtrodden, even though it was more honored in the breach.

Regarding communism, I believe it's failure is directly related to the absence of Zen thinking among communists. A Zen Communist, on taking power, would immediately give everything to the poor, send the government home, declare Communism achieved and resign his office. Thus the state would wither away.

"Zen Communism"...? :lol:

Hey, a Zen Nazi would have been a Zionist. Don't like the Jews? Send them where they want to go & they'll pay you for the privelege.

A Zen christian thanks god for this life.

A Zen Muslim would annoy the hell out of you on your doorstep like the Baptists, Pentacostals & Jehovah's witnesses do.

It's the Wei Wu Wei, the "doing without bothering".

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That are without doubt the queerest explanations of wu wei and zionism i ever red anywhere! Good one!

Of course, even if you expand te definition of success to academic or cultural achievements, there are still reasons to oppose socialist government, as they generally seem to require so many restrictions on personal freedom that those things, too, become harder. Of course, it would be unfair to attack socialism specifically for this, as it is but one of the systems that restrict too much. But it is one of them.