• Archangel1313@lemmy.ca
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    17 hours ago

    So…is this “Capital” in the room with us, right now? Is it wearing a name tag that says, “Hello. My name is Capital”?

    Is Capital really running the whole system? Or is it the people we choose to put in charge of that system?

    • QinShiHuangsShlong@lemmy.ml
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      16 hours ago

      No capital isn’t a ghost with a name tag, it’s a material social relation: ownership of production, control of investment, wage labor, and the institutions built to defend them. That’s why elected officials who threaten profits immediately face capital flight, media attacks, legal sabotage, and economic strangulation, among other attacks, regardless of their intentions. You keep reducing structural power to personalities because liberalism can’t think past individuals.

      Again I beg read Lenin and Chairman Mao, looks into what was done to Aellende Sankara and Lumumba. Until you understand that class power determines the state (not vibes and ballots) you’re just repeating liberal talking points and it’s not worth continuing this.