Re: Re: Debt crisis/Capital Crime

["Charles Brown" <CharlesB@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Chris,

Regarding capitalism's economic crimes, People's Attorney Castro says:



Fidel Castro: "Another Nuremberg is required to judge the unjust economic
order"

Complete text of President Castro's speech at the opening session of the
South Summit, April 12, 2000 is at:

http://www.granma.cu/ingles/abr2/16fidel-i.html

>>> Chris Burford <cburford@xxxxxxxxxx> 04/12/00 07:11PM >>>

> >Unemployment worldwide nearly doubled between 1989 and 1996, and now
> >criminally afflicts over a billion people.
>
>Nothing inherently criminal about it.
>
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>Charles B: You must not be unemployed.

I am not, but I don't get your point.



>Charles B: Capitalism is inherently capital crime.

I am a purist on this. A lot of crime is associated with capitalism but
accumulation occurs through the fair exchange of commodities. I do not
think this is pedantry. I think we sell the pass if we slip into
unscientific rhetoric about this. True that the owners of capital take
their decisions in order to maximise profits and not out of social
foresight, but that is in itself not a crime under capitalist law.


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Fidel Castro: "Another Nuremberg is required to judge the unjust economic
order"

Complete text of President Castro's speech at the opening session of the
South Summit, April 12, 2000 is at:

http://www.granma.cu/ingles/abr2/16fidel-i.html