• N0body@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    4 months ago

    Reforms to restrain the rent-seeking class were always an alternative to the preferred method of killing them and redistributing their wealth.

  • алсааас [she/they]@lemmy.dbzer0.comM
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    4 months ago

    relevant quote

    The revolutionary struggle is the very antithesis of the parliamentary struggle. In Germany, for four decades we had nothing but parliamentary “victories.” We practically walked from victory to victory. And when faced with the great historical test of August 4, 1914, the result was the devastating political and moral defeat, an outrageous debacle and rot without parallel. To date, revolutions have given us nothing but defeats. Yet these unavoidable defeats pile up guarantee upon guarantee of the future final victory.

    from “Order Prevails in Berlin” by Rosa Luxembourg

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      4 months ago

      They don’t have to. It will implode on itself eventually when it eats up the final resources available to it.

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        4 months ago

        Can we figure out a method that won’t take 95% of the population of the Earth along with it?

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        4 months ago

        Except it isn’t companies are colluding on pricing which drives up prices for the consumer. And Chinese import tariffs are artificially inflating the price of vehicles.

        I was taught that capitalism is about fair competition for consumers, and that really hasn’t been the case.