Reply To: The Elizabeth Warren Thread
Oh good, we can discuss the policies too of this bunch of reformists. I thought this about Amazon being “anarcho-capitalists” which you posted on libcom was amusing (incidentally libcom’s forum seems as alive as ours, must be a sign of the times):
In particular:
Capitalism is failing in America, and Amazon is both the cause and beneficiary of much of the breakdown … In the most extreme form of capitalism taxes do not exist. This is called “anarcho-capitalism.” Among all corporations, Amazon may be the leading advocate of this philosophy. They haven’t paid federal income tax for the past two years.
So, Amazon was must be singled out and dealt with because it has helped make American capitalism fail and pays no taxes. Bash Amazon to save American capitalism. There could be some vote-catching mileage there.
There is also something there about the wages and conditions of its workers (which I can see Dave reading out at Conference), though the word “exploit” here is used in its popular sense of being treated worse than most other workers (in the Marxian sense all workers are exploited, whatever their pay or however good their conditions).