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[–] 14 points 6 months ago* (2 children)

As you may well know, there is nothing wrong with "rent seeking" here because we do not have an immature understanding of capital where we duplicitiously split industrial vs finance capital the way the Nazis did.

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  • [–] 9 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

    Im imagining tons of people cheering for it because it’s bad for the U.S. and good for one of their victims despite the fact that it is literally a form of rent seeking

    (Quoting you, emphasis added)

    Maybe more reading may help.

    Poverty of Philosophy (an attack on Proudhonism; 99% of western leftists including a lot of self-claimed Marxists are guilty of)

    https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1847/poverty-philosophy/

    Best of luck

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