American Capitalism is not capitalism. It is a mix of socialism (half of peoples' income is stolen and redistributed by the state) and cronyism (political privilege is granted to some over others)

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[–][deleted] 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (4 children)

Yes! That's COMMUNIST PROPAGANDA! Exactly!

[–]useless_aether[S] 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

yeah, communism was created not to free, but to subdue the masses. ergo its all just a bunch of lies designed to take everything away from the people.

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That's not my point. My point is that the COMMUNISTS have taken to calling their horrible ideas "Socialism" because Socialism has always been a respectable philosophy of governance. They have created this bit of orwellian newspeak in order to make their doctrine seem more acceptable.

But nowadays many Americans are buying this communist propaganda that socialism is the same as communism, while in fact they are almost opposites. Case in point, the national socialists and their hatred and rejection of everything marxist and communist.

As a result of this, the idea that there is a philosophy of governance founded on the idea of attempting to minimize inequality of opportunity (iniquity) becomes absent the language and therefore the thinking of a big slice of the population.

It is truly orwellian.

[–]useless_aether[S] 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

thanks for clearing it up!