September 29th, 2008 by Brianna
So, the bailout plan got voted down.
I’m actually quite happy with this result. The plan, while improved over the initial version, was still stupid and pointless. As long as we’re going to try and run a capitalistic economy, we need to let bankrupt businesses go, well, bankrupt!
But what about the people affected, and all the lost jobs?
Help them directly. It would be many times more efficient than trying to keep failing businesses afloat.
Besides, the US has ruled the world for too long. We need a letdown to keep things fair.
I want to write more about this, but I’m too tired. More tomorrow.
Update: The Woman Rebel has some great reasons as to why the bailout plan was bad.
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September 2nd, 2008 by Brianna
So, does capitalism cause oppression?
Now, I don’t think that anybody is denying that capital can cause oppression, or that our current capitalist system perpetuates oppression, or that people use capitalism to exploit others. This is undeniable. These facts, however, do not mean that capitalism must cause oppression, that it always leads to oppression. More importantly, they in no way show that there exists another system which by nature causes less oppression than capitalism. I will attempt
to argue not only that capitalism does not always cause oppression, but that capitalism is in fact neutral – it can be easily used by an oppressor, but it also places no barrier to those who would stop oppression.
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August 26th, 2008 by Brianna
So, what are the possible feminist objections to capitalism?
The two that I was able to find easily – outside of some ecofeminists whose beliefs are tantamount to religion – were:
1. Capitalism encourages racial discrimination, and
2. Capitalism is inherently exploitive, leading to oppression.
These objections depend, of course, on the assumption that feminists should be anti-racist and anti-oppression. An excellent explanation of this concept, called intersectionality, can be found in the Feministe post linked in the first part of this series.
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August 23rd, 2008 by Brianna
Introduction
Inspired by this post on Feministe, I am going to attempt to write about feminism and capitalism until I either make some sense of it, or run out of things to say. Here is my intent in writing: I purpose to show that feminism and capitalism are compatible.
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