Capitalism
* Biblical concept.
* advocates the building of a never-ending capital.
* alienates people from their work and creates a degenerate society.
* allows for a wealthy elite while millions starve in the supposed land of equality
  - people to solve the problems of mutually destructive behavior
  - the individual to enjoy the fruit of ones labour
* also assumes the profit motive serves a cleansing function
  - comes with an automatic feedback mechanism that prevents a gross excess of capacity
  - constitutes and an obstacle to the formation of balanced markets
  - recognizes the freedom of the human person
  - relies on specialization to produce goods and services
* always loses when compared to the promises of communism and socialism.
* bans the initiation of force from all human relationships.
* begins with an exploitation of labor of workers.
* believes in profit and return on investment
  - that every person deserves an opportunity
* big, worldwide system.
* breeds greed, agression, isolation and self-intrest.
* brings a lot of stress to people unnecessarily
  - together workers from a range of backgrounds
* can change the foundations of economics in a country
  - never abolish slavery since it is based on wage slavery
  - run, even flourish, in a society of selfish cynics
* celebrates individualism.
* combines formal equality with economic and, consequently, social inequality
  - what geography, language, and religion have kept apart
* comes in a variety of forms.
* concentrates money and power in the hands of the few.
* continues to have instability
  - open the chasm between rich and poor
* creates contradictions in people's experience
  - hunger for criminality
  - inequality, and poverty creates a lack of culture
  - poverty and inequality
  - prosperity
  - unrest through an excess of products available to consumers
  - wealth, but limits freedom
* creeps into every aspect of life.
* cruel and unjust system.
* cyclical system.
* daily purveyor of misery and death.
* dead end for humanity
* demands accumulation and expansion and has little room for compassion.
* denies the banal dichotomy between property values and human values.
* depends upon competition.
* destroys social relations.
* develops spontaneously.
* does breed innovation and competition.
* drives innovation
  - workers' wages down to the subsistence level
* dynamic system.
* encourages invention, innovation and technological advance
  - people to put profit first
  - the maximization of self-interest
* euphemism for white-collar crime.
* exalts the selfish individual.
* excels at enriching industrialized countries at the cost to the rest of the world.
* exists throughout the world
  - to produce ads
* exports food from the hungriest nations in the world and imports it to the fattest.
* expropriates the wealth created by working people through their labor.
* faces a crisis of accumulation.
* falls apart when a monopoly forms.
* fight to the death.
* form of life in which it is very hard to live fully in the present.
* fraud within a fraud.
* fuels freedom.
* gives people the opportunity to obtain economic freedom while helping others.
* global system which subordinates human and environmental existence to money making
  - system, with the rule of the market imposed everywhere, usually by force
* good theory because it works in practice.
* has a short term outlook
  - sibling in political philosophy called liberalism
  - an iron grip on the political process
  - lowest taxes, freest markets and smallest government
  - no easily dated origin
  - social production and private appropriation
* hinges on laws to promote, restrain, and subsidize transactions.
* holds profits derived from risk and investment to be as honorable as wages or rent.
* inevitably means impoverishment, oppression and conflict.
* inherently discriminates against merchants who are jerks.
* institutionalizes variety, motivates excellence, but often neglects security.
* is The market, like gravity, is.
* is about capital, it s about money
  - freedom to choose
  - interdependence and the exchange of services
  - risk and reward
  - the right to own private property
  - winning, and about dominating and controlling the market
* is accompanied by the ideal of freedom as something to be attained
* is all about relations of power
  - risk and excess
  - also a highly cooperative system
  - always theft and often murder
* is an amoral economic philosophy, which admits no obligation to social responsibility
  - anarchic and crisis-ridden economic system based on production for profit
  - art form, an Apollonian fabrication to rival nature
* is an economic system based on individual rights
  - in which the factors of production are privately owned
  - that allows much freedom but provides few protections
  - ideology with a very shakey grip on the minds of the populace
* is an international system and it can only be combatted on the international arena
  - system, organised on an international basis
  - organized economic system
  - unequal system that exploits and brutalises human beings for profit
* is based on an unequal distribution of wealth and power
  - family
  - forms of organization that require careful calculation rather than habit
  - private ownership of the means of production and on competition for profits
  - profit and exploitation
  - property rights, and democracy on personal rights
* is based on the exploitation of man by man
  - the working class by the ruling class
  - notion of the supremacy of the individual
  - right to property
  - upon exploitation
  - believed to have too much of a certain principle in it, namely, too much freedom
  - built on the firm foundation of individual liberty
* is by far the most fair system in terms of opportunity
  - the definition an alienated relationship between means and ends
  - centered on the principle of property rights and the defense of such rights
  - characterized by all but one of the following
  - civilization s current dominant manifestation
  - competition, it forces people to compete to make the best product possible
  - dangerous to children and other living things
  - defined within the context of a discussion of commodity producing societies
* is driven by competition and the desire to constantly upgrade products
  - selfish accumulation, democracy by altruistic cooperation
* is essentially a scheme for peaceful nations
  - an amoral system based on exploitation
* is essentially mass production for the satisfaction of the needs of the masses
  - satisfaction of the wants of the masses
  - evil and corporations are the devil
  - first an foremost a system in which workers are proletarianized
  - fundamentally a risk-management system
  - good for people and for other living things
  - how to make a profit, and nothing else
* is human action toward the creation of value
  - in a crisis and unemployment is increasing every year
  - inexorably rational and inevitably cruel
* is inherently incompatible with the survival of the Earth's life sustaining processes
  - out of order with natural law
  - pessimistic or nihilistic
  - prodigal of resources
  - less and less capable of coping with advances in science and technology
  - like any other system in that it relies on the integrity of the participants
  - marked by the exploitation and commodification of human labor power
  - never self-regulating
  - notorious and defined by private property in the basic means of production
  - on the decline as it depended on the continual expansion of the economic system
* is one of many possible economic systems
  - variant of liberalism
  - way in which oppression is fueled
  - only one stage in the progress of humankind
  - opposed to slave states
* is organized acquisitiveness
  - on a global scale
* is our industrial-age evolution
  - politics
  - private ownership of the means of production, and anarchy in production
  - promise and fulfillment
  - rampant, in part due to economic synergies of networking
  - rejected by the modern right-which preaches enterprise but practices protectionism
  - relatively new in human history
  - rife with greed
  - simply the process by which technology evolves
  - subject to business cycles
  - superior to socialism as a means of achieving economic justice
  - supposed to give people choice
* is the best economic system ever devised
  - yet devised
  - system for the poor
  - economic system in which the commodity relation becomes all pervasive
* is the exploitation of man by man and communism is the reverse
  - fastest route to a clean environment
  - freest form of exchange between individuals
  - growth of an industry with a concentration on production
  - last expression of class rule
  - lifeblood of the United States
  - main cause of both overpopulation and the ecological crisis
  - means of production, socialism is the means of the government
* is the most flexible system yet created by humans
  - productive economic system found in human history
  - name of the system which rules our lives
* is the only ethical economic system
  - moral economic system in the world
  - proven system that enables everyone to become richer
  - religion in the west that is practiced without an iota of hypocrisy
  - social system compatible with individual liberty
* is the only social system that bars the initiation of force in human relationships
  - rewards virtue and punishes vice
  - socio-economic system based entirely on the doctrine of individual rights
  - system based on law and reason
* is the only system that allows freedom of religion, including freedom from it
  - fully allows and encourages the virtues necessary for human life
* is the only way resources can be allocated without the use of force
  - to promote the well-being of the masses
  - opposite of greed
  - private ownership of the means of production for profit
  - profit and loss system
  - real enemy of tyranny
  - rule of capital
  - social system based on the principle of inalienable individual rights
* is the system of individual rights
  - of laissez faire
  - that recognizes and protects individual rights
  - tool of change, and resources are the driving force of that tool
* is the worst economic system, except for all the others
  - way to run an economy except for all others
  - today's version of the what and democracy is the how
  - too easy to tend to a downward spiral resulting in economic and social ruin
  - typified by a desire to create a mass market
  - undemocratic, especially when combined with racism and sexism
  - unstable and leads to economic crisis
  - vindicated by the disintegration of 'state socialism'
  - what created the middle class in America, the largest the world has ever seen
  - wicked because it fosters greed, materialism, consumerism
* is, in many important ways, dehumanizing
  - short, morally corrupting, both for the individual and business
* knows no morality when it comes to profit.
* leads to dole queues, the scramble for markets, and war
  - excessive market concentration
  - exploitation of workers, which promotes inequality
  - greed and suffering
* lives on profits, on the surplus value it extracts from workers' labor.
* lose-lose situation for the working class.
* makes benevolence affordable to individuals
  - for free trade, free markets, limited governmental power, and peace
  - profits by the exploitation of labor
* male supremacist society.
* market economy.
* means allowing people to get rich by serving the needs of others
  - exploitation and repression
  - to Make Money
* mode of production that moves assets to their highest valued uses.
* moral system if only because it is based on trust
  - that depends on free exchange
* needs women to work.
* non-utopian system.
* now operates globally.
* offers only poverty sandwiched between periods of growth.
* often goes hand in had with political freedom.
* only triumphs when it becomes identified with the state, when it is the state.
* operates on investments.
* pays no respect to hierarchies of power.
* places profits before the welfare of people, thus causing poverty.
* point of view and a way of life.
* pollutes the air, the water, and seas.
* powerful force that influences governments, institutions, and people.
* produces poverty and alienation which in turn generates crime.
* productive, efficient, and powerful organizer of human energies.
* promotes inequality and social injustice on a global scale.
* protects all individuals from being sacrificed to any group.
* provides jobs for workers.
* relies on the market system to allocate scarce resources among competing wants.
* replaces government of the people as the security for their rights.
* respects the market as the only effective and fair means of allocating scarce goods.
* rests on the bases of private property and the competition of the free market
  - exploitation of the many by the few
  - upon a foundation of private property rights
* results in ever-widening circles of service to others.
* separates workers from each other.
* serves as the catalyst for revolution, as it provides for the separation of classes
  - people as consumers, as buyers of what others produce
* simply takes over ideas about gender that existed before it.
* social system based on the principle of individual rights
  - founded upon individual rights
* soul-crushing system.
* stands for freedom.
* subverts morality when it uses the sacred days to create possessive individualism.
* system based on individual freedom.
* system based on production for profit and consequently on exploitation
  - designed to encourage commercial expansion beyond the local level
* system of profit and loss
  - that works via self-interest
  - through which human wealth is reproduced
* tends to degrade the work process
  - despoil the land and pollute the atmosphere
* tends to destroy all social relations
  - the ancient forms of privilege and oppression
  - disemploy people
* thrives off exploiting others, it is the only way it can continue to grow
  - on undoing the excess of capitalism
* too depends on reason.
* totalitarian superorganism.
* type of felony.
* value only to people who want to enjoy prosperity.
* violates human rights, they say, since some people are rich and others poor.
* works best when unfettered markets set prices
  - by constantly displacing old ideas with new and better ideas, products and methods
* world system.