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Capitalism's natural and unavoidable end stage.
31 0 ReplyI like to blame capitalism for everything, too, but this has nothing to do with capitalism. Just the US Democracy not being a Democracy
5 27 ReplyCapitalism worsens the principal agent problem of representative democracy because it's trivial to bribe representatives, especially now.
10 0 ReplyAh yes the world richest man and a billionaire president have no financial motives for overthrowing the US gov. Definitely not the fault of the greedy capitalist system
23 1 ReplyBy world richest man you mean Putin or Bin Salman?
2 0 ReplyPick one it’ll probably be correct anyway
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Yes, but a functioning democratic system does not allow that.
Any power tripping person could overthrow a country for different reasons (like Hitler for example)
3 9 ReplyCapitalism encourages the break down of the democratic system.
19 0 ReplyWhere communism never had any democracy to start with.
1 11 ReplyThats because the US toppled every Democratic attempt at communism and socialism with staged coups and assassinations.
10 0 ReplyAnd why’s that folks? That’s right! The profit motive!
5 0 ReplyYes, the US is clearly to blame for the Stasi.
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Unbridled capitalism.
1 6 ReplyNo, just capitalism is correct. Unbridled or not, the profit incentive and private ownership over the means of production, both of which are intrinsic to a capitalist economic structure, still exist and contribute to systemic oppression.
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The richest people being the oligarchs has nothing to do with capitalism?
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