Comments by "Michael Mappin" (@michaelmappin1830) on "The Jimmy Dore Show"
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@ejackcity34 , what are you talkin about? :-) leftist policies in the UK? Privatization and deregulation is rampant.
I already told you that Trudeau is not a leftist. And besides, the environment of Canada today was shaped by Stephen Harper, who was in power for an entire decade prior to Trudeau! He would be the equivalent of your George Bush. Are you familiar with the political Spectrum, its history and evolution? For your information leftists don't cut regulations, increase privatization, bail out Banks, Etc. if you want an example of a leftist, consider Eugene Victor Debs, Big Bill Haywood, Thomas Paine, Elizabeth Gurley Flynn, Janet Rankin, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Rosa Parks, Susan B Anthony, Etc. LOL would you really compare Justin Trudeau and Obama to any of those people? :-)
you say that I'm the typical leftists? How would you know? But yeah, I am! I believe that wealth should actually stay with the wealth producers. no one should be entitled to the wealth generated by someone else! I believe that communities should own and control their own resources and labour.
But anyway, like I said, if you want to trust the news that's paid for by big corporations, go for it! But don't tell me that it's reliable, objective and impartial. Because it's not! again, it's like the tobacco industry spending billions of dollars on studies that show there's no correlation between smoking and lung cancer. and again, their record speaks for itself.
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@llffoomm what are you talkin about? You just described capitalism. Marxism doesn't have anything to do with taking things you haven't worked for. That is the core of capitalism. People should only be entitled to the well that they generate themselves with their own work. Do you really think an individual can convert their labour energy into a billion dollars? If your annual income was $100,000 a year after-tax, and you could save 100% of it each year , it would take you ten thousand years to accumulate a billion dollars. Capitalism makes this possible because it allows you to steal the wealth generated by other people's work. Just like when you capitalize on animals, like a cow or honey bees. People accumulate beehives so they can actually steal the wealth created by honey bees. If you can make a dollar off of each beehive per hour, and you have a million beehives, you can generate a million dollars per hour. and that's what capitalism is all about. I'm sure you've played the Monopoly board game. capitalism is about the maximization of capital accumulation so that you don't have to work for a living. those who don't have Capital have to pay rent in usage fees. why do you think the conversion to capitalism was so violent and bloody? Who wants to be human livestock? capitalism reduces human beings to livestock. if you are owned, if you are an employee, it doesn't matter what you're productive output is. It all goes to the owners a capital. for example, if you give a cow bovine growth hormone in order to double milk production, the cow doesn't have twice as much milk. The farmer does. But if the cow is free, the more milk it produces, the more it has. There's the difference. if you take 50% of the honey from a beehive, the bees have to work 50% longer in order to replace what you've stolen. And that is why we still have the 40 Hour Work Week even though productivity levels have increased exponentially over the last hundred and fifty years. Working hours remain the same because people are owned under capitalism just like livestock. why do you think 80% of the world's population subsists on $10 a day or less? Why do you think 44% of the American population now earns $18,000 a year or less? It is because the wealth produced by their labour is being siphoned off by those who own most of the capital. The more Capital you own, the more wealth you can extract from other people's labour. and every time you have a dollar that goes to a non producer, somewhere else you have someone who work for a dollar that he doesn't get. if your against theft. If your against exploitation, then you would be anti-capitalist. technically, capitalism is not even a real economic system because it violates Market and economic principles. If you expropriate most of the wealth produced by your workers so that they're earning only minimum wage, they then don't have the purchasing power to actually afford the very goods and services are producing in the first place. Consumption and jobs have to be maintained through debt. And that's why the Federal Reserve is currently pumping trillions of dollars into the economy at record low interest rates.
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Dore 2024!
Yes, I know, it’s always premature to discuss the next presidential contest. But I’ll make my pick for 2024 known now: Jimmy Dore.
For those who dismiss a comedian running for the highest office, I say, why not? Dick Gregory ran for president in 1968 as a write-in candidate for the Freedom and Peace Party. The comedian and civil rights activist used his run to energize the anti-war movement, draw attention to the needs of the working class and the harassment many people of color still faced following the passage of numerous civil rights bills.
Gregory, although he only accumulated close to 50,000 votes, frightened the Nixon administration with his campaign. Personnel in the Nixon White House feared Gregory may become the “black messiah” J. Edgar Hoover long warned about. Shortly after that warning, leaders such as Martin Luther King Jr., Malcolm X and Fred Hampton were gunned down. Fearful of his profile and his building of a true rainbow coalition, Gregory was placed on Nixon’s dreaded enemies list.
I sincerely believe a Dore presidential campaign could have the same effect. It could empower various social movements and make the oligarchs and their two corporate/puppet parties quake in their boots. Dore could start the race with genuine grassroots support and funding from the people.
Dore has expressed both interest and some hesitancy. But if history is any guide, I say he shouldn’t be worried. Run, Jimmy! Scare the oligarchs and empower the people!
Dore 2024!
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