John Stark
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When you can't confiscate your way to destroying your opposition, you can always just print money...
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Vladimir Lenin:
“Experience has taught us it is impossible to root out the evils of capitalism merely by confiscation and expropriation, for however ruthlessly such measures may be applied, astute speculators and obstinate survivors of the capitalist classes will always manage to evade them and continue to corrupt the life of the community."
"Debauch the currency to overturn the basis of society."
"Hundreds of thousands of ruble notes are being issued daily by our Treasury. This is done, not in order to fill the coffers of the State with practically worthless paper, but with the deliberate intention of destroying the value of money as a means of payment.… The simplest way to exterminate the very spirit of capitalism is, therefore, to flood the country with notes of a high face-value without financial guarantees of any sort.…The great illusion of the value and power of money on which the capitalist state is based will have been definitely destroyed."
John Maynard Keynes (author who gave us the justification of fiat money):
"Lenin is said to have declared that the best way to destroy the Capitalist System was to debauch the currency. By a continuing process of inflation, governments can confiscate, secretly and unobserved, an important part of the wealth of their citizens. By this method, they not only confiscate, but they confiscate arbitrarily…. Lenin was certainly right; there is no subtler, no surer means of overturning the existing basis of society than to debauch the currency. The process engages all the hidden forces of economic law on the side of destruction, and does it in a manner that not one man in a million is able to diagnose."
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Personally I'm not big on the notion of capitalism, at least not as it operates now in fact rather than by its definition:
"capitalism, also called free market economy or free enterprise economy, economic system, dominant in the Western world since the breakup of feudalism, in which most means of production are privately owned and production is guided and income distributed largely through the operation of markets." (see: Capitalism | Definition, Characteristics, History, & Criticism)
I do not believe that our economic system embraces that system any longer. Capitalism has become mostly a ledger-based system that tallies up slips of paper or digital figures in a computer somewhere, neither of which have inherent value. Furthermore, do we really think that we have a free market any longer? Big Business and Big Government control most of our "free market," making it not free any longer.
The restrictions and obstacles that have been raised to shut out competition, innovation, invention, and just plain old pulling yourself up by your boot straps and working for yourself are beyond daunting, keeping most from being able to offer goods and services in competition with the big boys. This is why I do not use the term capitalism any longer, and prefer the idea of a "free market" and "free enterprise," and how I believe the word choices matter to illustrate the difference between a rigged system that determines winners and losers, and an open system that lets everyone participate and make (or lose!) their fortunes as they spend their own hard work to achieve personal prosperity.
I also think its an important distinction to note that Jefferson put in "Happiness" as one of our main, God-given Rights in the Declaration, rather than a Right to "Life, Liberty, and..." Property. While the buying and selling of property, and the necessary corollary of hard work, ingenuity, and thrift that goes along with taking care of ourselves while providing values to others by our labor was certainly a strong and important principle to our Founders, they understood that for some, property was not the end all or be all, and that men could be happy in devoting themselves to charity and the help of their fellow man, or to the arts, or science, and so on, and not be very concerned with the acquisition of personal property while understanding that wealth was needed in order to help others.
I do not think it is controversial at all to state that, with the inception of the Federal Reserve in 1913, inflation has destroyed our currency:
Is there any question that our political and corporate overlords are fascist/communist oriented when it comes to their means of power over us?
I wonder, would our Founders have been shooting long before this? Rhetorical question I suppose.
Both American Political Parties Have Adopted Lenin’s Strategy for the Destruction of Capitalism
On April 22, 1919, on his 50th birthday, Lenin gave an interview to London’s Daily Chronicle and made stunning revelations about the Bolshevik's struggle to destroy capitalism. The next day the interview was published in the New Y...
Vladimir Lenin:
“Experience has taught us it is impossible to root out the evils of capitalism merely by confiscation and expropriation, for however ruthlessly such measures may be applied, astute speculators and obstinate survivors of the capitalist classes will always manage to evade them and continue to corrupt the life of the community."
"Debauch the currency to overturn the basis of society."
"Hundreds of thousands of ruble notes are being issued daily by our Treasury. This is done, not in order to fill the coffers of the State with practically worthless paper, but with the deliberate intention of destroying the value of money as a means of payment.… The simplest way to exterminate the very spirit of capitalism is, therefore, to flood the country with notes of a high face-value without financial guarantees of any sort.…The great illusion of the value and power of money on which the capitalist state is based will have been definitely destroyed."
John Maynard Keynes (author who gave us the justification of fiat money):
"Lenin is said to have declared that the best way to destroy the Capitalist System was to debauch the currency. By a continuing process of inflation, governments can confiscate, secretly and unobserved, an important part of the wealth of their citizens. By this method, they not only confiscate, but they confiscate arbitrarily…. Lenin was certainly right; there is no subtler, no surer means of overturning the existing basis of society than to debauch the currency. The process engages all the hidden forces of economic law on the side of destruction, and does it in a manner that not one man in a million is able to diagnose."
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Personally I'm not big on the notion of capitalism, at least not as it operates now in fact rather than by its definition:
"capitalism, also called free market economy or free enterprise economy, economic system, dominant in the Western world since the breakup of feudalism, in which most means of production are privately owned and production is guided and income distributed largely through the operation of markets." (see: Capitalism | Definition, Characteristics, History, & Criticism)
I do not believe that our economic system embraces that system any longer. Capitalism has become mostly a ledger-based system that tallies up slips of paper or digital figures in a computer somewhere, neither of which have inherent value. Furthermore, do we really think that we have a free market any longer? Big Business and Big Government control most of our "free market," making it not free any longer.
The restrictions and obstacles that have been raised to shut out competition, innovation, invention, and just plain old pulling yourself up by your boot straps and working for yourself are beyond daunting, keeping most from being able to offer goods and services in competition with the big boys. This is why I do not use the term capitalism any longer, and prefer the idea of a "free market" and "free enterprise," and how I believe the word choices matter to illustrate the difference between a rigged system that determines winners and losers, and an open system that lets everyone participate and make (or lose!) their fortunes as they spend their own hard work to achieve personal prosperity.
I also think its an important distinction to note that Jefferson put in "Happiness" as one of our main, God-given Rights in the Declaration, rather than a Right to "Life, Liberty, and..." Property. While the buying and selling of property, and the necessary corollary of hard work, ingenuity, and thrift that goes along with taking care of ourselves while providing values to others by our labor was certainly a strong and important principle to our Founders, they understood that for some, property was not the end all or be all, and that men could be happy in devoting themselves to charity and the help of their fellow man, or to the arts, or science, and so on, and not be very concerned with the acquisition of personal property while understanding that wealth was needed in order to help others.
I do not think it is controversial at all to state that, with the inception of the Federal Reserve in 1913, inflation has destroyed our currency:
Is there any question that our political and corporate overlords are fascist/communist oriented when it comes to their means of power over us?
I wonder, would our Founders have been shooting long before this? Rhetorical question I suppose.
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