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 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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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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I know a lot about upper middle class (bourgeoise) values; I think what makes this group different is impatience. The UMS walk faster than the MS. The UMS will line up early for something. The UMS will be neurotic about being at the front of the line
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