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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Doug M: [QB] [QUOTE]Originally posted by anguishofbeing: [qb] [QUOTE]Originally posted by Doug M: [qb]And like I said being from a place or traveling to that place once does not make one an expert or above being in ignorance of that place either.[/qb][/QUOTE]True. But it still doesn't take away from your dumbass advocating commie polices that not even you can explain properly. lol [/qb][/QUOTE]LOL! Why are you starting that nonsense on this thread? What is it about the other thread that you can't handle your business without ranting on others? LOL. Communism versus capitalism is definitely not the scope of economics in the world and has never been. And if that is the ONLY MODE you think in relative to economics then the point is more and more obvious of how much a brainwashed idiot you are. In fact, the oldest traditions of organized settlement revolved around the ability of a people to defend their "turf" which literally provided for their well being and sustenance. Hence the cows and chickens, gold and everything else were symbolic of the protective power of the king himself as custodian of those lands. So again, yes might and force make right in terms of control of wealth and prosperity for a people. It has absolutely nothing to do with capitalism or communism as those ideas aren't even 200 years old........ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capitalism and [QUOTE] Capitalism is a difficult, problematic term; it applies to a diversity of phenomenon spread across disparate historical cultures with substantially variable world views. However, the term is an Enlightenment European term used to describe European practices; so the term "capitalism" means more than just a body of social practices easily applied across geographical and historical distances, it is also a "way of thinking," and as a way of thinking does not necessarily apply to earlier European origins of capitalism or to capitalism as practiced in other cultures. The earliest forms of capitalism—which we call "mercantilism"—originate in Rome, the Middle East, and the early Middle Ages. Mercantilism might be roughly defined as the distribution of goods in order to realize a profit. Goods are bought at one site for a certain price and moved to another site and sold at a higher price. As the Roman empire expanded, mercantilism correspondingly expanded. But the contraction of the Roman empire from the fifth century onwards also contracted mercantilism until, by the 700's, it was not a substantial aspect of European culture, that is, European economies tended to localize. Arabic cultures, on the other hand, had a long history of mercantilism, living as they did on the trade routes between three great empires: Egypt, Persia, and later Byzantium. As Islam from the seventh century A.D. onwards spread like wildfire across Northern Africa, Spain, the Middle East and Asia, Arabic mercantilism assumed an unprecedented global character. The medieval Europeans essentially learned mercantilism from their Islamic neighbors, evidenced in large part by the number of economic terms in European languages that are derived from Arabic, such as tariff and traffic. From the 1300's, Europeans would begin expanding their mercantile practices, resulting in a social mobility hitherto unseen in European culture as well as pushing Europeans, as it did the Muslims, to explore distant parts of the globe. The voyages of discovery were entirely driven by mercantile ambitions. As time went on in Europe, mercantilism gradually evolved into economic practices that would eventually be called capitalism. Capitalism is based on the same principle as mercantilism: the large-scale realization of a profit by acquiring goods for lower prices than one sells them. But capitalism as a practice is characterized by the following: The accumulation of the means of production (materials, land, tools) as property into a few hands; this accumulated property is called "capital" and the property-owners of these means of production are called "capitalists." Productive labor—the human work necessary to produce goods and distribute them—takes the form of wage labor. That is, humans work for wages rather than for product. One of the aspects of wage labor is that the laborer tends not to be invested in the product. Labor also becomes "efficient," that is, it becomes defined by its "productivity"; capitalism increases individual productivity through "the division of labor," which divides productive labor into its smallest components. The result of the division of labor is to lower the value (in terms of skill and wages) of the individual worker; this would create immense social problems in Europe and America in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. The means of production and labor is manipulated by the capitalist using rational calculation in order to realize a profit. So that capitalism as an economic activity is fundamentally teleological. [/QUOTE]From: http://www.wsu.edu/~dee/GLOSSARY/CAPITAL.HTM [/QB][/QUOTE]
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