Message from @Bird Wizard

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2018-12-11 14:06:33 UTC  

the capitalist still needs to be a socialist man and the gov't can't lean too much on the man

2018-12-11 14:06:56 UTC  

a capitalist cannot be a socialist; nor vice versa. I'm not sure I follow what you are saying?

2018-12-11 14:07:51 UTC  

I'm explaining an ideal, that's very implausible

2018-12-11 14:09:28 UTC  

anyway, he can't only look how to satisfy his bottom line but also to preserve the culture around him.
work has to be hard as well. otherwise people will get lazy

2018-12-11 14:10:13 UTC  

but this is nonsensical. the capitalists will wield the power in society, so long as capitalism is preserved. in no way will the nation as a whole have a say in how the resources are spent. this is in the final analysis only possible under socialist productive relations

2018-12-11 14:11:33 UTC  

he can't be preserved. he needs to wield that power for the good of the nation, sometimes maybe even against himself, he has to be a moral person and not a calculating one.

2018-12-11 14:13:46 UTC  

except that the people that capitalism selects are, really by necessity, the people most willing to be ruthless in business....after all, under capitalist selection, the moral ones do not, in fact, raise to the top. the altruists, those looking for the good of their nation - but rather, those who seek to benefit and advance their own egoist interest

2018-12-11 14:13:50 UTC  

because if the state preserves the capitalist then its capitalism

2018-12-11 14:14:21 UTC  

and further, so long as capitalism remains the primary mode of production, the state itself will be dependent upon the capitalist

2018-12-11 14:14:22 UTC  

after all,

2018-12-11 14:14:35 UTC  

it is the capitalist who provides service, owns infrastructure and distributes goods

2018-12-11 14:14:43 UTC  

the capitalist is the root of the corruption that takes hold in nations

2018-12-11 14:14:46 UTC  

and socialism is the cure

2018-12-11 14:14:55 UTC  

to an extent

2018-12-11 14:15:02 UTC  

a poison to cure a poison

2018-12-11 14:15:28 UTC  

embrace the third position

2018-12-11 14:15:33 UTC  

reject both

2018-12-11 14:15:54 UTC  

heh, no system is perfect, this much is true. but socialism beyond a shadow of a doubt serves a nation the best. its somewhat remarkable to me that so many nationalists are right-wingers, when left-nationalism would serve the nation they *claim* to love so much better

2018-12-11 14:16:06 UTC  

internationalism is obviously superior, but this has no bearing on the mistake that many nationalists do

2018-12-11 14:16:29 UTC  

tbh international capitalism can go fuck itself

2018-12-11 14:16:54 UTC  

China along with it as well

2018-12-11 14:17:14 UTC  

they are probably the best example of what ruthless capitalism can be like

2018-12-11 14:17:26 UTC  

ironically a communist nation

2018-12-11 14:18:16 UTC  

oh China is not communist in the slightest, and I literally wish them to crash and burn to ashes. I harbour nothing but contempt for that nation

2018-12-11 14:18:47 UTC  

and yes, agreed, international capitalism can indeed go fuck itself

2018-12-11 14:19:06 UTC  

the problem with capitalism, of course, is that it *must become international* because it is inherent to the laws governing the growth and evolution of capitalism that it must expand

2018-12-11 14:19:12 UTC  

of course, nation is a limited playground,

2018-12-11 14:19:19 UTC  

so eventually capitalism - to avoid collapse - must expand beyond the nation

2018-12-11 14:19:28 UTC  

and this is why capitalism never stays national

2018-12-11 14:19:32 UTC  

why it always goes global

2018-12-11 14:19:36 UTC  

the plan is to stop it before it does, and tell them NO, nooo... NO respect the worker

2018-12-11 14:20:22 UTC  

in the international trade, the nation sets the terms

2018-12-11 14:20:23 UTC  

but is this possible? i think that it will be very difficult to stop capitalism from expanding because to stop it from expanding means to stifle its growth rate. if you stifle the growth of capitalism - and capitalism is a system *fundamentally predicated upon ad infinitum growth* - the system comes apart

2018-12-11 14:20:25 UTC  

not capitalists

2018-12-11 14:20:48 UTC  

limit the growth

2018-12-11 14:21:09 UTC  

seems like a brainlet solution

2018-12-11 14:21:15 UTC  

I mean tbh I'd see Juche work better for nationalists than capitalism but idk

2018-12-11 14:21:26 UTC  

expansion seems like a good solution tho

2018-12-11 14:22:02 UTC  

you mean expand the purview of the nation, the state, so that capitalism would have more domestic living space? that would imply war, if you mean expansion in the state sense

2018-12-11 14:23:09 UTC  

any of the two is alright

2018-12-11 14:29:06 UTC  

I believe that the alt-right has a "marketist" perspective