[Peace-discuss] US to Provide $70 Million Additional Funding to Syrian Rebels

[Carl G. Estabrook]

Note Albert Einstein on capitalism and character, from 75 years ago:

"...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.
"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…"

http://monthlyreview.org/2009/05/01/why-socialism/


> On Mar 17, 2015, at 10:15 AM, Stuart Levy via Peace-discuss <peace-discuss at lists.chambana.net> wrote:
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> Gary Trudeau suggests another more radical approach -  see the current Doonesbury, rerun from the 1981 Reagan era:
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>        http://doonesbury.washingtonpost.com/strip/archive/2015/3/16 <http://doonesbury.washingtonpost.com/strip/archive/2015/3/16>
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> <0bd3b410a9a30132cdd4005056a9545d.gif>  <http://doonesbury.washingtonpost.com/strip/archive/2015/3/16#mutable>
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> On 3/17/15 8:40 AM, David Green via Peace-discuss wrote:
>> I'm perfectly willing 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 shape up.
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>> On Tuesday, March 17, 2015 12:12 AM, E. W. Johnson via Peace-discuss <peace-discuss at lists.chambana.net> <mailto:peace-discuss at lists.chambana.net> wrote:
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>> Ibn Khaldun would say it is due to the decay of the social order 
>> and that the New World Order is SSDD.
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>> I would say it is due to the decay of the moral character.
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>> The people like leaders like Kirk who are morally ambiguous.
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>> Kirk also says,
>> "America remains the greatest force for human good in the entire world."
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>> That's a cool perversion of logic.
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