(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.)
yeah, that's a thing that annoys me about marxism tbh, that the troop rallying is all around this class divide that even in marx's writing is permeable as shit and is a thousand times more permeable today than it was then
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like the polemic is the evil non-laboring class but the actual theory has bourgeoisie and petit bourgeoisie and artisans and yadda yadda and looks more like a Mandelbrot lace
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Yeah, the manicheanization of marxism bugs me because it feels like it profoundly misses the point: at some level, even the seeming-beneficiaries of capitalism are also victims of capital.
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