Comments by "Mesolithic Man" (@mesolithicman164) on "The New Culture Forum"
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@Phil
Very interesting. The Rab Butler quote is obviously a partisan view of capitalism and is to some extent true. However.
Capitalism, even bad Capitalism, is always better than the Left wing alternative, I submit, because the individual is a free citizen. In the USSR they had grinding poverty and an oppressive state down system that could send you to a Gulag if you tried to resist their authoritarianism. We've always undervalued our western freedom and now it's starting to be picked away at by the state ( all 3 main parties) I think people are starting to see the real value of individual liberty.
To expect Capitalism to never screw up and always maintain full employment is in my opinion a pipe dream. Yes, there are crashes, because some aspect of the economy has become overheated, but I think you have to accept that there are bugs in the system. That said, you might get 100 % employment in the USSR, but if that means a dismal experience of factory or field work while Communist officials ride around in black cars and arrest people for wrongthink, I'd rather have our system, warts and all, than theirs. A lot of British socialist intellectuals, enjoying all the benefits of western freedom, lauded Communism in Russia, but never acknowledged the godawful prison-like lives the Russian people were forced to endure.
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