• acargitz@lemmy.ca
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    13 hours ago

    If I’m not mistaken, Marx describes capital as “dead labour”. So, to answer your question: who made capitalism? Vampires, zombies, liches. The undead.

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      10 hours ago

      Marx certainly didn’t see capitalism as merely metaphorical. Marx recognized that capitalism existed in material reality, that it was a system constructed and operated by real, flesh and blood human beings.