The US modus operandi for regime change as outlined by Michael Parenti in ‘The Face of Imperialism’.pic.twitter.com/sn8V1yy9Ec
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"[e]mpires are not innocent, absent-minded, accidental accretions. They are given purposive direction by rulers who consciously mobilize vast amounts of personnel and materials in order to plunder other lands and peoples".pic.twitter.com/A8jXU3mG1A
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sure, but their "rulers" in organizing their plunder do nothing but follow the law of value--devising how best to maximize returns and minimize costs--their "purposive direction" is that of capital. power comes only from submission to power.
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Is taking as many lives as possible minimizing the costs? And maximizing value? Yes if you are the war industry. There R quantum considerations in the bloodshed we as humans have so easily acclimated ourselves to. For every depressive decade our world gets unhealthier to inhabit
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the history of capitalism is conatural with the history of military "progress" https://libcom.org/files/The%20destructive%20origins%20of%20capitalism.pdf …
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