Instead of Marx's grand ideas for world piece and universal control of all things.....
This is what turns out. ^^(violent anti-communist protests)
Wednesday, February 29, 2012
communism at work
Instead of Marx's grand ideas for world piece and universal control of all things.....
This is what turns out. ^^(violent anti-communist protests)
Tuesday, February 28, 2012
Free Market?
hey, thought I'd talk about interesting things having to do with a free market.
Karl Marx's main ideas all about economics seem to have one end in mind. Perfect equality in every way, but with everyone prospering. So basically in capitalism you have everyone looking out for themselves, but with the government, state or federal, having some restrictions. For example you have the FDA screening all food and drug products before they hit the market. So in a way, you could even think about Marx's ideas as the culmination of Capitalism. It's interesting, because most people think of capitalism as the opposite, but it's not. It is a much milder, and hopefully controllably so, form of socialism. The real opposite is the free market.
Basically the Free market is a situation where everyone looks out for themselves and sells, produces, buys, and screens for themselves, enlivening the phrase, "Caveat Emptor." In a perfect world this would be great, and the perfection of government, anarchy in the economic arena. But, as in all else, people are bad, so it won't work. Hence the big elaborate system of checks and balances, laws, lobbyists, regulations, and agencies we have today, keeping the system of capitalism together and in check.
Karl Marx's main ideas all about economics seem to have one end in mind. Perfect equality in every way, but with everyone prospering. So basically in capitalism you have everyone looking out for themselves, but with the government, state or federal, having some restrictions. For example you have the FDA screening all food and drug products before they hit the market. So in a way, you could even think about Marx's ideas as the culmination of Capitalism. It's interesting, because most people think of capitalism as the opposite, but it's not. It is a much milder, and hopefully controllably so, form of socialism. The real opposite is the free market.
Basically the Free market is a situation where everyone looks out for themselves and sells, produces, buys, and screens for themselves, enlivening the phrase, "Caveat Emptor." In a perfect world this would be great, and the perfection of government, anarchy in the economic arena. But, as in all else, people are bad, so it won't work. Hence the big elaborate system of checks and balances, laws, lobbyists, regulations, and agencies we have today, keeping the system of capitalism together and in check.
Saturday, February 25, 2012
Hey Anyone!
I thought I'd resuscitate this old dead blog. Basically, the new title is a reference from a Calvin and Hobbes comic, which I have a part of as the background. What does it mean? In short, it means a middle-class oaf. I thought it was fitting for me...and the sort of stuff likely to exude itself on this blog. It's funny, cause Bill Watterson uses the word Bourgeois in the same way that Karl Marx did in his "Communist Manifesto." I might add that Watterson employs the word with infinitely more poise and grace, as well. Thing is, different philosophers like to generalize their ideas to fit with the "vulgar masses" of people that make up the world, and middle or bourgeois class always are that majority. It's an extremely interesting subject, and one which I'm currently intrigued (I won't say obsessed) by, and the only one which I have been thoroughly enjoying this year in my Literature course. So, it may pass, but while it's here, I want to yammer on about it.
btw, bourgeois is pronounced Borze-wass-C, interestingly enough.
10/4
~Aaron
I thought I'd resuscitate this old dead blog. Basically, the new title is a reference from a Calvin and Hobbes comic, which I have a part of as the background. What does it mean? In short, it means a middle-class oaf. I thought it was fitting for me...and the sort of stuff likely to exude itself on this blog. It's funny, cause Bill Watterson uses the word Bourgeois in the same way that Karl Marx did in his "Communist Manifesto." I might add that Watterson employs the word with infinitely more poise and grace, as well. Thing is, different philosophers like to generalize their ideas to fit with the "vulgar masses" of people that make up the world, and middle or bourgeois class always are that majority. It's an extremely interesting subject, and one which I'm currently intrigued (I won't say obsessed) by, and the only one which I have been thoroughly enjoying this year in my Literature course. So, it may pass, but while it's here, I want to yammer on about it.
btw, bourgeois is pronounced Borze-wass-C, interestingly enough.
10/4
~Aaron
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