• Cowbee [he/him]@lemmy.ml
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    7 months ago

    You seem to not understand what Capitalism is.

    Capitalism doesn’t simply mean “markets.”

    Capitalism is a Mode of Production by which individual Capital Owners buy and sell Capital, with which they pay wage laborers to use said Capital to produce Commodities in an M-C-M’ circuit, where M is a money supply, C is the commodity produced using M money, and M’ is the greater sum of Money.

    The federal government being twisted by Capitalists that have grown to excessively large statuses with dragon hoards of their own in order to protect their interests is 100% the result of Capitalism.

    The corruption absolutely is due to Capitalism, and to pretend it isn’t is intentional blindness.

    • CableMonster@lemmy.ml
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      7 months ago

      I agree with most of what you are saying, but I disagree that it is a necessary part. Corruption is inherent in every system that I am aware of, but it doesnt need to be part of it. Right now, we could reduce the federal government to 1/10th of what it is with no problems, and that would be closer to true capitalism. The system currently just recirculates the money to the rich because the governmet is so big and it controls what we do.