Conservatives are eventually going to gave to grapple w/the fact that it’s not communists, but hyper-capitalists who are pushing and enabling our destructive cultural revolution.
Google & Blackrock are not communist. Bill Gates is not a communist. The celebrities wouldn’t know Marx if you brought him to breakfast. The foot soldiers of the revolution are people of relatively higher socioeconomic status who look w/undisguised contempt on those below them.
>what did capitalism mean by this?
Capitalism and communism BOTH reduce human beings to a labor commodity, to cogs in an economic machine whose value is measured in terms of work and consumption.
Imagine that Amazon continues to grow and eventually swallows all retail. It becomes so big that any disruptions cause huge economic dislocations. It’s “too big to fail,” meriting bailouts, but important enough to be strictly regulated. 1/2
Amazon will essentially have merged with government. Its army of lawyers meet daily with the government’s army of lawyers, making sure the company is “compliant” and working in “the national interest.” You could call it the Federal Logistics Department without losing meaning. 2/2
Imagine that the same thing happens in other industries. Big Tech becomes the Ministry of Information. Sure, there are sub-ministries - the Facebook Bureau, the Google Department, etc - but they are monopolies regulated - but also protected - by state power.
The end state of ungoverned capitalism is monopoly in every significant industry, each of which is too big to fail - that is, every industry run as a pseudo-government agency, as finance has been for many years. Where does that leave you? Well, in Moscow circa 1976 or so.
When people are reduced to economic units, their local preferences, customs & quirks (culture) become an impediment to the smooth flow capital & labor. Think what a pain it is for McDonalds that 1.2 billion Indians don’t eat beef. They’d eliminate Hinduism tomorrow if they could!
Mass production requires consumers with similar preferences. Local culture is an inefficiency. People who love their hometown or living near extended family are not eager to move for a new job, inhibiting the efficient deployment of “human capital.”
Capitalism needs consumers w/homogenous tastes (no culture) and workers with no local or family ties. It wants this globally, because borders disrupt the efficient flow of capital & labor. The Chamber of Commerce doesn’t push open borders out of concern for the Mexican poor.
The end state of the perfect capitalist system is an economy government by too-big-to-fail pseudo-government monopolies, and a homogenous population whose mobility is not inhibited by annoying sentimentality regarding family, locality, or tradition - in other words, communism.
A primary difference, of course, is that capitalism tends to get there w/the carrot, while communism gets there w/the stick. But they’re going to the same place because their theory of man, as primarily a consumer & labor unit, is the same.
But capitalism doesn’t have to use the carrot, and it knows how to use the stick. Simply resist the annihilation of your hometown, traditions, beliefs, or family structure too vigorously, and you’ll find out all about the stick.
None of this is a criticism of markets. Market price signals are necessary for an economy to function at all. But just as monarchism means rule by monarch, and communism means rule by the communist party, capitalism means rule by capital, and we should NOT be ruled by capital.
Clarity is important, lest counter-revolutionaries indulge the fantasy that things will change if only they elect people who aren’t communists, or get the schools to stop teaching a left wing curriculum.
You just described the destruction of culture which was the subject of this thread.
Lolbertarians literally doing “that’s not real communism!” except for capitalism. 😂 😂 😂
Bingo. If the USA is not capitalist, then the term has no meaning.
Brought to you by… not a government. In fact, this is being pushed on governments by the private interests behind it.
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