I’m not arguing that the problem is local government and not capitalism. I am saying they work together in very specific ways.
Capitalism is not a ghost or the devil. It is a particular set of social relations. Defining it abstractly like the big bad in season 1 of some superhero movie is not practical. In order to learn to defeat capitalism we have to fight the forms it takes in order to expose how it has corrupted government, democracy, human rights; but also to show that capitalism will never stop taking different forms and the bourgeois will never stop trying to swindling their way into more and more power, until the profit motive has been totally negated on every level.
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I’m not arguing that the problem is local government and not capitalism. I am saying they work together in very specific ways.
Capitalism is not a ghost or the devil. It is a particular set of social relations. Defining it abstractly like the big bad in season 1 of some superhero movie is not practical. In order to learn to defeat capitalism we have to fight the forms it takes in order to expose how it has corrupted government, democracy, human rights; but also to show that capitalism will never stop taking different forms and the bourgeois will never stop trying to swindling their way into more and more power, until the profit motive has been totally negated on every level.