Joanna
Peter Hart Ward wrote:
> I propose for the next addition of the Oxford Dictionary a new
> definition of 'capitalism': 'The systematic looting of society'. An
> honest survey of the facts would seem to bear this definition out as
> both a more accurate as well as more inclusive definition than any
> previously suggested. To say, as the current dictionary version does,
> that it is 'an economic and political system in which a country's
> trade and industry are controlled by private owners for profit,
> rather than by the state' is not quite accurate--in fact, the state
> and population, often against their will, have an integral role.
> Admittedly, and for better or worse, a paradox presents itself:
> capitalism can only continue so long as there's mutual theft;
> eventually, it would seem, its own success would destroy it.
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