• @[email protected]
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    302 months ago

    Capitalism is antithetical to democracy. Capitalism left unchecked will eventually lead to fascism.

    • @[email protected]
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      -42 months ago

      The first sentence is not true. The second sentence is absolutely true. It is funny how that works.

      • Muad'dib
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        162 months ago

        The first one is true.

        In democracy, the people rule society

        In capitalism, the rich rule the economy

        The economy always rules society

        In a capitalist democracy, society serves two masters. Both opposites. It’s inherently unstable because it’s self contradicting.

        • @[email protected]
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          -62 months ago

          Economic systems are not viewed in terms of who “rules” unless we are taking a Marxist perspective.

          The first sentence of the post is and will always be completely untrue.

          • @[email protected]
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            112 months ago

            Bro just watched tech billionaires coup the US government and he still doesn’t understand the problems with the concentration of wealth.

              • @[email protected]
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                -42 months ago

                Far too many people have actually studied Marx in academic situations for Marxist economics to ever become mainstream at the very least. The simple fact that the Labor Theory of Value is fundamentally incorrect would be the major problem. We aren’t adopting Marxist economics like we won’t be going back to a Lamarkian perspective on evolution, because we know it is wrong.

                Marxist sociology is what I hope becomes more common.

                  • @[email protected]
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                    -32 months ago

                    There are ways value is created that are absent of labor and Marxist economists have to go to extremes to justify the labor basis of the value. l

            • @[email protected]
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              -22 months ago

              At no point have I said that the concentration of wealth isn’t a problem.

              I have said that it is false to claim democracy and capitalism cannot co-exist. They absolutely can and do in many nations. France is currently both.