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Old 12-26-2019, 08:31 PM   #20030 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by OccultHawk View Post
I’m not sure if I have a useful definition of capitalism in my head anymore.
Money is power, capitalism is when hard social distinctions for who should hold money and power become nebulous and undefined but the people who previously held money and power made the rules and created the conditions for who now holds the money and power, and now simulcra confuses the **** out of you and makes reality something impossible to define.

There is no easy answer to any of this, but just know that any current definition of money and power exists to ease the confusion of people who will never understand the nature of the society they rule.
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There is only one bright spot and that is the growing habit of disgruntled men of dynamiting factories and power-stations; I hope that, encouraged now as ‘patriotism’, may remain a habit! But it won’t do any good, if it is not universal.
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