Calling all communists

[chequita guevara]

Originally posted by johncmcleod
I am still looking for the answer to why communism in this country would be better than what we have now, and why or why not would it be worth the struggle to set it up.

What have you read?

[Tripledoc]

Chegitz. Those quotes simply prove that Adam Smith was an evil, evil man. They don't disprove his anti-humanism.

[chequita guevara]

Originally posted by DinoDoc
The sad thing is that you actually believe this perversion of history rather than seeing the US decision not to go to war in its proper context.

Most people do believe it and the government did expect an attack after they slapped sanctions on Japan. They didn't know the attack at Pearl Harbor was coming, but they had guessed that war was coming.

Outside of someone declaring war on us, we weren't getting into it. And if we didn't get into it, we were going to continue to be mired in our sinking eeconomy, as Britain and the USSR and China certainly weren't in any position to purchase enough war materials to rev up our economy.

[chequita guevara]

Originally posted by Tripledoc
Chegitz. Those quotes simply prove that Adam Smith was an evil, evil man. They don't disprove his anti-humanism.

Only if you believe he is saying this is the way things should be, rather than this is the way things are. What it shows me is that he pays attention to more than just the capitalists, and talks about the disadvanatges of the worker, which is more than most other economists do. Most other economists talk about the worker having an equal hand and a freely entered contract, not Smith. He goes on for several pages describing how the workers are screwed.

Again, Smith is not laying out a system of the way things should be here. He is describing the economy of Great Britain in 1776, how things were. Don't fall into the capitalist trap of believing Smith invented capitalism.

[DinoDoc]

Originally posted by chegitz guevara
Outside of someone declaring war on us, we weren't getting into it.

I call BS che.

By the late 1930's we recognized that Germany was a potential hegemon and that they were likely to make moves to conquer Europe. We were counting on the other great powers of the region to counter the threat posed by Hitler. It was the sudden collapse of France and the widely predicted defeat of the Red Army that sparked a change in American strategic thinking. By the fall of 1940, public opinion polls were showing that people felt that it was more important to insure that the UK defeated Germany than to avoid a European war. The US congress had also started increasing defense funding making it possible to start building an expeditionary force to send to Europe.

[Kramerman]

che, you are deluded man