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Like this has got to be case in point of a generation raised on media who can only relate to politics through spectacle and aesthetics.....right? I'm coming up short on analogies but this is like the equivalent of wondering why UFC fights don't look like marvel movie action pieces or some shit. Like guess what kids: in real life oligarchs and business interests don't meet in secret shadowy smoke filled rooms. They meet out in the open on million dollar yachts and pieces of property and they often televise everything openly.

The real life truth is every bit as evil but its also infinitely more banal.

Okay if capitalism doesn't exist and nobody does anything on behalf of it, then it should be okay if we overthrow it, right? I mean you can't defend that which doesn't exist. So if there's nothing to defend, then what's the problem with socialism? What are you preserving?

The State? What's that?

Actually, business owners aren't real because no one has ever seen a business owner: https://twitter.com/K_Niemietz/status/1704182743163179194

If they only care about their business, that in and of itself makes a political statement. Absence of care defines politics as much as presence of care does

Liberals really believe that marxists believe that businessmen are all huddling together and literally working together and not just giving money to separate causes with the same ultimate outcomes.

The truther-to-Marxian pipeline does in fact exist though.

Head of Political Economy @iealondon. Views my own. Author of the books 'Socialism: The Failed Idea That Never Dies' and 'Universal Healthcare Without The NHS'.

evergreen article about these PMC vermin from Amber: https://americanaffairsjournal.org/2019/11/the-characterless-opportunism-of-the-managerial-class/

It’s called interest convergence. We have a whole term for this exact line of thought, which has been debunked at length.

didnt they literally just do this at some congress meeting that was warmongering about china

This take is so bad I forgot it was a dunk screenshot and I reflexively downvoted

They only care about their own business. They only care about their workers insofar as their labor provides profits for their business. That isn't political at all?

They don't care about providing for their workers the best work environment, the best healthcare plans, the highest wages, and the ones who do are less successful in the marketplace because they have less money left over to reinvest in advertising and signage and the like. This multiplied by a million business owners racing to the "top" which from the worker perspective as well as the consumer perspective is a race to the bottom.

Reddit-brain MF thinks he can downvote Karl Marx in his profile picture.

Having a vested interest in maximizing profit is apolitical sweaty, maybe you’ll learn that when you’re older

Rightoids really do see themselves as the absence of politics.

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