isn't that just capitalism becoming purer by corrupting the market
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I'm not convinced "pure" and "corrupted" are at all valid terms in this context. It is capitalism following it's normal progression, or, at any rate, continuing the trend identified as far back as 1916, and arguably earlier (Capital Vol III on the circulation of capital)
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yeah you definitely may have leapt to that conclusion prematurely
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Yeah, there seems to be a definition problem here. In the context of marxism, 'capitalism' is defined as any system in which a non-laboring class controls the distribution of the products of labor.
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(So, both the USSR & the US are capitalist, & a system can be capitalist without markets, under this definition. And, under that framework, it's not surprising that you'd see creeping integration.)
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Whatever happened to the biohacking meme? Was it just a couple nerds with petri dishes or did they actually reach "you wouldn't download a drug" levels?
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obviously real capitalism has never been tried also, have i got the blog post for you:https://twitter.com/StevenBrust/status/1066800975778697216 …
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