Haiti: A Capitalist Failure?

[BeFree]

Haiti was about as close to pure capitalism as it gets. There was no real government, the only time something got done was either from capitalists or volunteers who had plenty enough capital that they could make a contribution.

If there was any socialism it came from capitalist acting like socialist.

So what we see in Haiti is a complete and utter failure of the pure capitalist creed.

[SteppingRazor]

1. Untrue. It's a massive capitalist success!

It's just that none of the capitalists involved happened to be Haitians.

[GreenPartyVoter]

4. Ouch! That stings like a razor cut. Wish it felt that way to the cretins who

make their gazillions on the backs of suffering people.

[SteppingRazor]

5. Somehow, I'm sure they'll survive.

People fail to see the connections, but this country was picked clean by American banks, especially Citibank for years, and then was raped further by the U.S.-backed Duvalier regimes. Once our bankers and the monsters sponsored by our government had left the place in shambles, Port au Prince was built up with the sort of infrastructure one would expect from the poorest nation in the Western hemisphere, so that when a huge quake hit, the place was devastated in a way that a more-developed country would never have been.

Capitalism kills.

(Of course, so does just about every other "ism" when taken to extremes, so what the hey, right?)

[GreenPartyVoter]

6. It's so very wrong, it's nausea inducing.

[sabrina 1]

2. Haiti was taken over by banks in the early 1900s. The US

installed a puppet government back then also. Every state where the Western Neoliberal/con Globalists have interfered, either by invasion or by propping up brutal dictators, which they ALWAYS do, has been a failed state.

Since some of the S. American countries have finally gotten out from under the influence of these corrupt, arrogant Imperialists, they have been able to put their resources to work for their own people and establish governments that they choose. We still can't leave them alone though. Evidence the many threads even on this board, slamming countries like Venezuela who is no longer in debt to the World Bank.

They are also now prosecuting their former corrupt dictators as there is no statute of limitations on war crimes, torture and murder. And until a country establishes that rule of law, it will continue to promote crime at the highest levels.

Haitians have tried to get justice for the crimes committed against them also, but so far to no avail.

I am worried that with supporters of this kind of failed Capitalism like Bush Sr. being asked to get involved in Haiti's affairs, there is little hope that Haiti can turn this horrible disaster into finally breaking free from a brutal system of oppression.

Seeing Bush Sr. being asked by the WH to get involved, is a very bad sign for Haiti ~ much like the appointment of Geithner, Bernanke and Rahm Emanuel were a very bad sign for us.

[izquierdista]

3. The genius of the Adbot

When I clicked on the story, the ad was for Steve Forbes' "How Capitalism Will Save Us". :rofl: :rofl:

Capitalists LOVE their advertising and to paraphrase Lenin, "when we go to hang all the capitalists, they will advertise so we know which is the best rope to use".