Bread and Circuses on Nostr: ⓵ Here’s something I said a few weeks ago: ___________ “Capitalism has nothing ...
⓵ Here’s something I said a few weeks ago:
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“Capitalism has nothing to do with democracy. In fact, capitalism functions best when democracy cannot interfere.
“That’s why, putting their dishonest and misleading rhetoric aside, capitalists *always* oppose democracy and will seek to shut it down. They’ll keep up the pretense, waving a flag of freedom while in reality disabling democratic processes and choking freedom out of existence.”
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⓶ And here’s something George Monbiot said recently:
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“Democracy is the problem capital is always trying to solve, and neoliberalism is their means of solving it.
“Neoliberalism uses the power of the state to destroy democratic resistance: sweeping organised labour, protest, and meaningful political choice out of the way.”
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⓷ And that’s why Tory vs Labour, or Red vs Blue, or conservative vs liberal isn’t as important as most people think. Yes, there are some differences between them, but because both sides are backed by the same moneyed establishment, those differences do not mean much in comparison to the overriding class war of neoliberal capitalists vs the rest of us.
#Politics #Capitalism
___________
“Capitalism has nothing to do with democracy. In fact, capitalism functions best when democracy cannot interfere.
“That’s why, putting their dishonest and misleading rhetoric aside, capitalists *always* oppose democracy and will seek to shut it down. They’ll keep up the pretense, waving a flag of freedom while in reality disabling democratic processes and choking freedom out of existence.”
___________
⓶ And here’s something George Monbiot said recently:
___________
“Democracy is the problem capital is always trying to solve, and neoliberalism is their means of solving it.
“Neoliberalism uses the power of the state to destroy democratic resistance: sweeping organised labour, protest, and meaningful political choice out of the way.”
___________
⓷ And that’s why Tory vs Labour, or Red vs Blue, or conservative vs liberal isn’t as important as most people think. Yes, there are some differences between them, but because both sides are backed by the same moneyed establishment, those differences do not mean much in comparison to the overriding class war of neoliberal capitalists vs the rest of us.
#Politics #Capitalism