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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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Have you read Braudel or other early histories of capitalism? It's not quite that clean. In mercantilist pre-modern form it managed to bootstrap slavery and militarist colonialism without much of an ideological egghead air cover going.
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there's no "it". "it" does nothing, does not act. the strong subject the weak. the air cover was people pretending this was just or moral. more and more I think nobody ever believed that
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There is an it. Sorry, just because there is no subject that can be blamed doesn't mean there isn't a coherent complex system of mechanisms that exhibits emergent intentionality and has clear effects.
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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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Push come to shove, I'm probably a far more strident capitalist than you, but it has no real competitors anymore. Communism 2.0 etc is more history repeating itself as tragedy then as farce. Things like ancap aren't there yet. So we're in TINA zone.
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The biggest threat to capitalism is actually its own past versions. The economic struggle now is between neoliberal globalism and protectionism, which are both flavors of capitalism.
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Nah, it's just some superficial rhyming. There are no Stalins lurking behind the pronoun warriors, anymore than there are Hitlers lurking behind the proudboys. It's all idiots larping behind scary historical masks.
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