Does Capitalism Inevitably Produce Inequalities?

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117. RE: your last paragraph.......

More specifically, your last sentence. How do we KNOW it's "...better than other systems"? Is it better than Stalinism? Probably, although even Stalinism did some impressive things in the USSR. In SPITE of Stalin and the bureaucracy, not because of.

The problem with this particular propaganda meme is that nobody really knows what a socialist system that is allowed to develop naturally can do. We know what capitalism can do BECAUSE it was allowed to develop without much interference from the feudal PTBs and the previous system. Capitalism in it's early stages wasn't considered a threat to the "Divine right of Kings" and the other nobility of the time, so it established itself easily and quickly. Socialism, especially of the Marxist variety, was not accorded this luxury.

We don't really know what socialism could accomplish because EVERY attempt at establishing a socialist society was undermined by the capitalists and their toadies in the political system at every turn. It was undermined overtly and covertly, militarily, politically, economically and propagandized against incessantly for decades. All because it preached that all people are equal and should have the basics of life as a right.

Until the capitalists allow a socialist state to manifest and grow naturally, we don't really KNOW if capitalism is "...better than other systems."

As to the first part of your post, we agree. Any economy, short of the Marxian version of communism (From each according to his/her ability, to each according to his/her need), INCLUDING socialism, will have inequalities in compensation. It's an inevitability. The goal of socialism is to LIMIT those inequalities and provide ENOUGH of the basics of life to EVERYBODY until society has reached the point where need is no more. At that point, a society will be able to begin to understand what the ideal of communism actually is and how to get there.