capitalism > communism bc basically runs itself. didn't need to be introduced through cataclysmic violence. gradually evolved out of political realities and common law vs. conceived as an ad hoc solution to the world at large by a resentful, egg-head, patronizing, false prophet.
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I can't begin to think about effects because the data is all polluted. there's no meaningful control. Also we're, like, inside it.
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I mean I know you're an anti-marxist crusader, but seriously, the threat of marxism is not so huge now that you have to put lipstick on the happy pig of capitalism. I think fears of modern communism 2.0 are leading to some sort of dangerous idealization of capitalism.
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Capitalism is an egregore. To accept how the mechanism works (which I do, as do you clearly) is to accept complicity in its effects. It is not so inscrutable that we can walk away from (say) the Bhopal gas tragedy with "oh, it's a thing that runs itself, nothing to be done"
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Capitalism is not "strong subject the weak". That is selling it really short, and is the mistake the NRxers make. It is actually much better than that. It actually drives strong and powerful emergent virtues (cf. McCloskey's "Bourgeois Virtues") that I think beat Darwin
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