Do we really have a "capitalist" system if all of our goods are manufactured in China?

Question

Since almost all of the products now sold in America were manufactured in (Communist) China by eleven year old girls working for slave wages and under abhorrent conditions including working 80 hour weeks in sweat boxes that spew toxins into the air, is it proper to call our economic system "Capitalism" if all the goods we buy are made by slaves?

Is the "Walmart loophole" that allows us to import goods from China, but no other communist country, simply a way to do an end run around the Constitution and implement a system of slavery?

Answer 1

No, it's not capitalism is people make ten cents per hour. It's the closest thing to slavery. Face it: Jefferson Davis and the proponents of slavery won the Civil War, it just took 140 years to do it. Thanks Walmart!

Answer 2

That is proof that we live in a capitalistic society.  People buy the least expensive product they can to save money.  

By the way you do realize that the hype about Walmart was started by the food workers union don't you.  They had no problem at all with Walmart until they started selling groceries.  Tell me how many people have actually been hurt due to all the toxins in Chinese products sold at Walmart?  Also these "sweat boxes" in China pay much higher than other jobs in the areas where they are.  This leads the way to organizations that will eventually protect workers rights.  Similar to what happened here in America when unions began organizing.

Answer 3

I think the point you're making is proof of capitalism. In Marx's analysis of capitalism, people are reduced to slaves by selling their labor power, capitalism expands (as our multinational corporations have done everywhere), and conditions for workers are reduced and reduced so more profit is made. In any case, the US is not entirely capitalist. It has protectionist elements like tariffs, subsidized agribusiness, the military-industrial complex, etc. It's more of a mixed economy, as any prosperous First World is.

China is not communist, it's a dictatorship. It has a significant market economy, a society of classes, private companies operating in the country, etc. In China, the workers are not in control, so this represents more of a Bolshevik, stalinist, lenninist communism of hierarchy that directly opposes communist theory as defined by marx and engels. I don't know how these conditions equate with communist theory. You're quite unaware of communist theory. I'm not a communist, but the argument that there is greater freedom in workers controlling the economies of nations (so they don't work in sweatshops and get paid absurd wages) and politics, is greater freedom that just "democracy" (actually representative democracy) with capitalist economies. Walmart is the epitome of capitalism monopolizing and destroying working class lives, not of communism.