These interviews with Larry wilkerson, are so informative; please keep em up!

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Brilliant interview. Thanks, Paul.

great interviews

9:18 ``This is what we do today, we do war !`` HAHAHA epic !

@elouwen I never said capitalism was a system of government. It's an economic system based on exploitative property and profit.

@woodbell67 You have a point, yet what I think Mr. Wilkerson tried to say is, that Capitalism is in its more aggressive, more concentrated monopole-Capitalistic phase.

I really wish you would put related segments into easy to follow titles -- part 1, part, 2, part 3, etc.

@woodbell67 I think that's almost exactly the misconception. Predatory capitalism is where companies focus only on the short term interests of their bottom lines. Non-predatory capitalism imposes standards that say that suggest that a competition between companies should ultimately produce something that strengthens society as a whole. It's difficult to enforce as a cut-and-dry law but that doesn't make it any less relevant.

@woodbell67 hmm.. word play :) What do you mean by "regulated predation" ?

@Parazitas999 Sorry to disappoint you, but there appear to be some confusion here, I haven't argued in either way, but someone mentioned that predatory Capitalism to him is a redundant terminology, for which I tried to explain, that what Mr. Wilkerson may have meant was Monopolistic Capitalism. Then someone else chimed in.... and that's where we are now.

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@woodbell67 I think the word you want here is "tautology", the unnecessary repetition of words that mean the same thing, or, in logic, a necessarily true statement.

@a2zhandi Thanks dood. I guess we have to start somewhere. Take care.

@wotan20 Yes there is some sort of confusion, sorry your nicknames are similiar. Just trying to have discusion.

6 years later and we are still in the Oil Game ! Here comes the Russians , Turks , Israel , Iran , China and who else wants to stake a claim on the crude business ?

@Parazitas999 Since I (and those I regard as sane and intelligent) view capitalism as the economics of predation and exploitation, my 'word play' is just a restatement of your comment.

@woodbell67 Social Democratic Capitalism, where it is clear, that the state sets and controls the rules, that markets adhere to, while not the activities in the markets themselves.

@wotan20 In other words, its inevitable and logical late-stage expression.

@dangermous1968 What for of capitalism is there in the USA?

@Parazitas999 Dictionary aside, what about your own lived experience, and powers of observation and interpretation? (To say nothing of libraries full of books on the subject.) Rhetorical question, no need to reply.

@sdrawkcabgnipytmi The problem is private ownership. "regulatory capture"

I meant international thuggery

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@juliaisafilmbuff123 'Predatory Capitalism' is a redundancy. What other kind of capitalism is there?

The size of the United States as a Federal entity cannot be discounted in assessing what that Nation is capable of. Iintercontinental trade allows both East and West coast markets to compete against the middle, to prey on itself, tighten the Bible Belt, is grit to the mill more than grist, foil more than oil, spoil more than toil.The belief in technology as saving the absentee landlord from all sorts of sin also discounted cannot be in understanding why culturally we see less good education now.

@woodbell67 No I do not need help I was just interested why you claim that capitalism is by definition predatory? I do not find that in the definition of capitalism. That is all I was wondering.

@Parazitas999 regulated predation

@Parazitas999 OK docky.

@wotan20 I like your arguing style, let me try it too. No it isn't :) And simply stating that some authority figure thought the same is not a proof and not even an argument. So let's try it again. Why do YOU think that capitalism is predatory, and no it is not self evident. And yes I do want to hear a coherent explanation.

@woodbell67 regulated capitalism

@elouwen ...like Somalia ?

"But but but, this is NOT the REAL capitalism!!! This isn't REAL capitalism!!!! This is CORPORATISM and it is because RON PAUL said so!!!!!!!! REAL capitalism makes everyone a millionaire and NEVER causes wars!!!!" Okay, that was my parody of about 2/3rds of the comments this video will receive.

@Parazitas999 Yes it is, moreover it was famously predicated by Karl Marx in the 19th Century. Don't get me wrong, I don't like him, because he was a paid writer for the Rothschilds for one thing, yet he wasn't without talent for keen observation.

@Parazitas999 You are evidently not one of those aforementioned people. When you go to work in a capitalist system you exploit or are exploited, by definition. The profit motive. Do you need some help?

@woodbell67 Books are fine and I'm not saying that capitalism is the greatest idea ever and we should not chalange it. But why create your own definitions and try to explain how evil it is just because you decided to change definition?

@dangermous1968 free enterprise

@elbowbiter1 "the teachings of Jesus", or any moralist you could name. Feed the hungry, clothe the naked, be a steward and not a destroyer of this planet etc. I think you have the wrong video...

Yeah next time you guys go to war for oil, could you actually get some?? Seriously you should see what I'm paying for gas.

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