The 10 Biggest Myths About Our Economy

As a long time independent democratic socialist I think the biggest myth about the capitalist economy is that it makes the world a more free and happier place . The TRUTH : In all countries CAPITALISM remains a system of exploitation and oppression of the working class : Shared with Public: Prominent scientist J.D. Bernal on Marx's concept of capitalist exploitation. [ I laughed when I read one Jewish person exclaim : " Socialism is anti-Semitic " . And perhaps old Karl Marx would agree ? Consider this opinion of prominent scientist J.D. Bernal : One perhaps long forgotten science scholar, J.D. Bernal writes in his book " Science In History " : [" Marx thus demonstrated that capitalism ,far from being a system of natural justice as the classical economists maintained, was one of extortion imposed by arbitrary force. It was the central concept of EXPLOITATION ,which the economists had hidden from themselves , that was to give the explosive force to Marx's teaching ". .... " It was not that workers and peasants had not felt exploited for centuries, it was rather that now they could understand the mechanism through which the exploitation was carried on ". " The implications of Marxism were so repugnant to the ruling bourgeoisie of the time that it is not surprising that for another fifty years all over the world , and until today in a large part of it , they were ignored and rejected by the official exponents of social science . "] ( Bernal's book was first published in Great Britain 1954 ) NOTE : Also, the mainstream news media imagines that it can " sell " nuclear World War III ( against POST-COMMUNIST Russia! ) to the American working class and the American middle class with stale Wilsonian blather that was false more than a century ago. The wisdom of a " Tumultuous Sixties " Thought- Crime : " What if THEY start a war and nobody shows up ? "