10-26-2011, 11:04 PM
(This post was last modified: 10-26-2011, 11:19 PM by FireIceTalon.)
The founders feared the majority would tyrannize the minority, but it is the very opposite that has happened. The corporations and politicians have far more power politically and economically than the masses. Capitalism is democracy for the wealthy and powerful, nothing more (I think Marx referred to it as bourgeois democracy). So, what is your solution now, now that the minority has turned our Republic into an corporate oligarchy? Less government regulation? That can only work if the corporate tyranny is destroyed first. See, in socialism, it is democracy for the masses, and tyranny by government OR corporations is forbidden and prevented, as the means of production and property is shared by all. And this may piss some people off, but I dont necessarily have the utmost respect for the founders as people. They were fucking wealthy, racist and hypocritical slave owners, even if they were brilliant thinkers and politicians.
I am a strong advocate for the 2nd Amendment by the way, despite me being a far left wing commie. Guns dont kill people. People kill people ^.^, banning or creating tighter laws on gun ownership is not the solution, and statistics seem to show that there is less crime in places where gun laws are less harsh (though I am uncertain how strong that co-relationship is). Creating more economic equality to reduce crime in the first place, NOW that is a solution I can get down with.
I am a strong advocate for the 2nd Amendment by the way, despite me being a far left wing commie. Guns dont kill people. People kill people ^.^, banning or creating tighter laws on gun ownership is not the solution, and statistics seem to show that there is less crime in places where gun laws are less harsh (though I am uncertain how strong that co-relationship is). Creating more economic equality to reduce crime in the first place, NOW that is a solution I can get down with.
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"Your very ideas are but the outgrowth of conditions of your bourgeois production and bourgeois property, just as your jurisprudence is but the will of your class, made into law for all, a will whose essential character and direction are determined by the economic conditions of the existence of your class." - Marx (addressing the bourgeois)
"Your very ideas are but the outgrowth of conditions of your bourgeois production and bourgeois property, just as your jurisprudence is but the will of your class, made into law for all, a will whose essential character and direction are determined by the economic conditions of the existence of your class." - Marx (addressing the bourgeois)