BRUH EARLY STAGE CAPITALISM WAS SNAKE OIL, SLAVE TRADE, WORK HOUSES AND CHILDREN IN SALT MINES, WTF DO YOU MEEEEAN?!

And it always has been, we just moved those things to the brown countries and they’re coming home now! Fuck you!

Ahem. I’m fine.

  • batsforpeace [any, any]@hexbear.net
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    3 months ago

    very popular line in alt/youtube media, jeffrey sachs, yannis varoufakis, and so much more, ‘we need to return to the older good capitalism, just a few bad people in charge right now we have to replace and then we’ll get those nice high speed trains and everyone will be happy

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      3 months ago

      Varoufakis is overhated in my opinion and as far as I am aware he doesn’t argue for such things. I’m no superfan of him but he isn’t on the same level of garbage as Zizek and Chomsky.

      Hasan Piker did an interview of sorts with him and Yanis came across more marxist and leftist than I expected. Just because he isn’t a Marxist-Leninist doesn’t mean he is a liberal.

      Although maybe I just don’t know enough about him, feel free to argue otherwise.