tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19106619.post1743268116735095180..comments2023-09-12T09:17:19.865-07:00Comments on Socialist Humanism with a human face: Industrial FeudalismJDHURFhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02133971619468463558noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19106619.post-10039343481419973052011-06-12T04:22:03.429-07:002011-06-12T04:22:03.429-07:00Capitalism has "improved" plight of mass...Capitalism has "improved" plight of masses by replacing a clay soup bowl with plastic soup bowl, lather one lasts bit longer ,thus the "owner "<br /> of this later capitalist invention is around bit longer to keep FEUDAL CAPITALISM ALIVE by financing it's rescue every 25+ years.<br /> That event going on now before our own eyes (for those willing to admit).Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19106619.post-54394366187060108552010-02-07T11:36:31.960-08:002010-02-07T11:36:31.960-08:00Thank you for the kind words and the qualified res...Thank you for the kind words and the qualified response to the innate and fallacious concept of “market democracy” whereby consumers practice democracy by making consumer decisions. You correctly observe that this picture misses the fact that capital by definition creates vast inequality in the market place and thereby renders democracy therein obsolete. <br /><br />Thanks for the link to your website, it looks fantastic, great site (I’ll add it to my links). I haven’t seen the other post you mentioned, something must have happened to it because there are no restrictions to posting here, it’s absolutely free and open, I don’t even have to review posts and accept them: a post simply appears the moment someone posts it, so I don’t know what happened to your other post.JDHURFhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02133971619468463558noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19106619.post-6064227550463570262010-02-06T14:35:10.793-08:002010-02-06T14:35:10.793-08:00Your essay is excellent, but one comment I'd l...Your essay is excellent, but one comment I'd like to add re: "most people seem to fail to notice that within the realm of economic life, they are essentially voiceless" People usually reply that they do have choices,like where to shop, or that they can voice their views with their dollars. One pre-emptive rebuttal I wish you had included in your essay (I'm sure you're aware of it just wish you directly said it in this paragraph) is that such consumer choices are not only much weaker than the votes of concentrated money/power, but are deeply anti-democratic. Actual democracy is "one person, one vote" and not "one dollar, one vote" which lets a billionaire have not twice or three times or 10 times but thousands of times more say than you or I. (I hope you saw my previous post about our website economicdemocracy dott org, I don't see it posted yet) In solidarity.Econdemocracyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14914228469716633953noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19106619.post-72563970433874190272008-10-27T04:03:00.000-07:002008-10-27T04:03:00.000-07:00Thanks for the kind words melloncollie.Thanks for the kind words melloncollie.JDHURFhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02133971619468463558noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19106619.post-9733460148265343922008-10-23T10:59:00.000-07:002008-10-23T10:59:00.000-07:00Really great work, JDHURF. I like the point you an...Really great work, JDHURF. I like the point you and Chomsky made about how you can't argue that slavery is a good system just because later generations of slaves had better lives than previous ones.<BR/><BR/>Your whole essay here is erudite and concise. I agree that industrial feudalism is totalitarianism. As always, you make a good case for rule of the people by the people.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com