Comments on: Michael Moore: It’s not Capitalism, silly man; It’s Corporatism

By: JMAL

JMAL — Tue, 29 Nov 2011 19:46:46 +0000

If you understood economics you would realize something. Depressions and recessions are as a matter of fact very good for the economy. Depressions and recessions allows for the reallocation of resources that were previously not in the correct place. This allows for the economy to "fix" itself and come back even stronger than it was before. So your entire argument concerning the mafia is actually false.

By: Guest

Guest — Tue, 29 Nov 2011 04:32:50 +0000

The author is right. You people here who put down his article are wrong. Corporatism and Monopolism are the problem. A True Free Market Libertarian Constitutional Market capitalism would cure these problems. Street vendors are a great example. As things stand, big business is able to use government power to limit street vendors. If we had a free market libertarian society like I propose, street vendors would be essentially unregulated as far as the right to street vend and set up carts and tables etc goes. If businesses that pay overhead and the rest complain the answer is TOO BAD> FREE MARKET COMPETITION. What would happen? Many out of work people would be able to sell goods from guns and knives and daggers and swords to food and books and clothes and hairpins and appliances and even yes cars on the street without any government saying you cannot do it. Corporate Monopolies only exist when they can use government power to limit the small businesses and others. If government was UNABLE to interfer, then the capitalist free market would make sure monopolies never formed.

By: LibertarianMike

LibertarianMike — Thu, 25 Feb 2010 23:37:13 +0000

Who is Mark?

By: Brad G.

Brad G. — Thu, 25 Feb 2010 23:26:49 +0000

I thought this was a great article, Mark. I'm quite disappointed (though I shouldn't be surprised) by the comments here; I don't think most of them even read your article. Kudos to you for responding civilly, I don't know if I could have managed the same.

By: Brad G.

Brad G. — Thu, 25 Feb 2010 23:26:49 +0000

By: marcg

marcg — Sat, 12 Dec 2009 05:24:10 +0000

Moronic? It seems more moronic to suggest that the abuse of an existing system should be blamed on the system itself as you are doing. Capitalism doesn't *cause* corporatism. Corporatism may be an abuse of capitalism but that doesn't make capitalism a bad system.

Your logic is failing. An equivalent argument would be to say that "People don't kill people, guns kill people", which is as absurd as saying corporatism would never have been introduced without capitalism.

If our government/lawmakers were to concentrate on investigating fraud and defending contracts instead of bailing out, subsidizing, and worrying about maintaining their power, capitalism would work just fine.

No, it would not be perfect, but it's certainly better than what we have now and what is likely to only get worse in the future.

Term limits would help and making our lawmakers accountable for each and every vote would help as well. Unfortunately, it looks like it's going to get much worse, before it has a chance of getting better.

Thanks for the comment,
Marc

By: marcg

marcg — Sat, 12 Dec 2009 05:24:10 +0000

No, it would not be perfect, but it's certainly better than what we have now and what is likely to only get worse in the future.

Thanks for the comment,
Marc

By: Darryl

Darryl — Fri, 11 Dec 2009 23:52:00 +0000

Well its completely a moronic statement that capitalists are making, …."Corporatism" wouldn't have ever been introduced without capitalism, it is a direct birth from the capitalist system. You cannot have corporatism without capitalism. Damn politicians just trying to move the blame onto something that should even exist in our minds, to try and make us believe their intentions have our best interests in mind, look at our world today….eventually if we do no step up to the plate and begin to force change then there will be nothing left for our grand children. Over the last 10 yrs look at how many promises have been kept by politicians….very few, open your eyes stop debating or misguiding information and do something about it.

By: Darryl

Darryl — Fri, 11 Dec 2009 23:52:00 +0000

By: Darryl

Darryl — Fri, 11 Dec 2009 18:52:00 +0000

By: Ben

Ben — Thu, 03 Dec 2009 08:56:32 +0000

America is quite corporatist, which is in fact very similar to fascism. if A=B and B=C then A=C

By: LibertarianMike

LibertarianMike — Wed, 02 Dec 2009 09:32:53 +0000

The US is not fascist, huh?
It's hard to argue with someone who disagrees with the dictionary's definition of words…