<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class="">Note Albert Einstein on capitalism and character, from 75 years ago:<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">"...This crippling of individuals I consider the worst evil of
 capitalism. Our whole educational system suffers from this evil. An 
exaggerated competitive attitude is inculcated into the student, who is 
trained to worship acquisitive success as a preparation for his future 
career.</div><div class=""><div class="text_exposed_show"><p class="">"I am convinced there is 
only one way to eliminate these grave evils, namely through the 
establishment of a socialist economy, accompanied by an educational 
system which would be oriented toward social goals. In such an economy, 
the means of production are owned by society itself and are utilized in a
 planned fashion. A planned economy, which adjusts production to the 
needs of the community, would distribute the work to be done among all 
those able to work and would guarantee a livelihood to every man, woman,
 and child. The education of the individual, in addition to promoting 
his own innate abilities, would attempt to develop in him a sense of 
responsibility for his fellow men in place of the glorification of power
 and success in our present society…"</p><div class=""><a href="http://monthlyreview.org/2009/05/01/why-socialism/" class="">http://monthlyreview.org/2009/05/01/why-socialism/</a></div></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""><div><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Mar 17, 2015, at 10:15 AM, Stuart Levy via Peace-discuss <<a href="mailto:peace-discuss@lists.chambana.net" class="">peace-discuss@lists.chambana.net</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class="">
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    Gary Trudeau suggests another more radical approach -  see the
    current Doonesbury, rerun from the 1981 Reagan era:<br class="">
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            to believe that the moral character of the 1% should be
            largely called into question, rather than that of those who
            are consigned to being poor. But capitalism only encourages
            that, and indeed rewards bad character traits, such as greed
            for wealth and power. The only way to prevent their bad
            character from ruining society for the rest of us is to
            change society at a fundamental and structural level. That
            way they can only inflict their bad character on their
            families, and their families can issue them an ultimatum to
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                  March 17, 2015 12:12 AM, E. W. Johnson via
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                    <div class=""> Ibn Khaldun would say it is due to the decay
                      of the social order <br class="">
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                      I would say it is due to the decay of the moral
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                      The people like leaders like Kirk who are morally
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                      "America remains the greatest force for human good
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