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Why People Say Capitalism is Violent
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this post was submitted on 30 Sep 2023
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can't think of a more unbiased source than jacobin
All journalism is biased. Why not judge the article on the merits of its contents rather than it's source? Here's a brief PDF from a book written in the 40s describing the Nazi economic system as "not quite capitalist" because they had elements of a planned economy. Even though we're well aware that capitalism uses economic planning all the time. Here's a breakdown (from a socialist source, deepest apologies for my bias) using Walmart as an example. Here's an article from the Washington post saying essentially the same thing as the Jacobin article. Here's literal neo-nazis discussing what national socialism and fascist economics entail. They're very confused on the distinctions between socialism and capitalism. But you can see them advocating for private property, the success of private enterprises and pseudo state capitalism. If you have even a modicum of economic literacy you can see that they clearly want a certain flavor of capitalism that they somehow managed to think was socialist.