This isn’t an accident; it’s how the system works now. Ever-expanding inequality an inherent design flaw & only fundamental change will fix it. SCOTUS Justice Brandeis said we can have large amounts of $ concentrated in hands of a few or we can have democracy; we can’t have both.https://twitter.com/Public_Citizen/status/1277279091566223361 …
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You cannot have antiracism without anticapitalism. You cannot have anticapitalism without antiracism. Say the words Marianne.
Sorry, but I can’t. To me it’s more nuanced than that. I’m still holding out for an appropriately regulated capitalism with a conscience, money out of politics, and a healthy balance between capitalist and socialist factors in society.
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I hope you keep holding out and keep standing up for these values. Stay strong.
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I will, thank you. And yes I know you're slighting me by agreeing with
@marwilliamson. I repeat. You cannot be antiracist without being anticapitalist. Capitalism may have once been defined by more or less benign market terms but now it's stigmatized by an association with theft.
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Like Warren, what you say is "disentangling capitalism from theft and racism and imperialism" to quote
@DrIbram, "what capitalism introduced to this mix [markets, market rules, competition, benefits from winning] was global theft, racially uneven playing fields..rushing upwards." - 1 more reply
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I’m going to go to a factory Southeast Asia and explain all the complicated reasons they work in a sweatshop. “You see,” I will say, “innovation is important to human potential, which is more important than being paid a living wage”
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