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Says who? I mean, sure, capitalists retroactively justify their class position with all sorts of fairy tales, but the fairy tales do not preceed those...

But this is quite wrong. Capitalism can only take root where its conditions of reproduction can be secured. And those conditions are material, and not...

Not sure what point you're making other than writing a book report on that one Mark Blyth book you read once?

Intentions are really quite irrelevant in the face of reality. But really, I do agree with most of what you're saying. I guess I'm not sure how it is ...

From 2021, but imagine this shit being sustainable - not for life, which it clearly isn't, but for capitalism itself: https://www.zerohedge.com/market...

The point is that markets already are incorporated into wider circuits of social life. The relevant question is one of dependancy or not.

I largely disagree, but none of this has much to do with what you originally wrote, nor what I was replying to.

Anyway, I clearly need to say more about finance and profit, and their relation to markets, since these things are clearly causing issues. Worth start...

But this is not true. Or at least, this remains only a partial truth, and far too abstract. One needs to make a distinction between the mere existence...

Again, holding fast to the distinction between exchange and production, this does not get to the heart of capitalism insofar as it tries to understand...

It is about profit, but it is not just about profit. And it's not about 'hitting capitalism with one dart'. It's about understanding the specificity o...

Again, this is another thing that is straightforwardly wrong and ahistorical. Money is yet another thing that has been around long before capitalism. ...

Damn. I tried to make it as clear as I could. @"Tom Storm" is exactly right to pick up the production/exchange distinction as the key to it all though...

But this is straightforwardly wrong. Interest has been around long before capitalism has. To imagine that interest is the diffentia specifica of capit...

Yeah and ths US and NATO "likely have not thought about" this, but you, random ass person who says wrong things all the time on the internet, have. Pl...

Oh good, coming from you, this means I am exactly correct.

Mmm, tell me again how the US and NATO have not thought all that much about nuclear weapon deployment in Europe (?????). Does it come from the same in...

Oh I see the problem is that you can't read English. My mistake, carry on. I went back and bolded the relevant bit to help out a foreign language spea...

Incredible. Can you teach this power of making things up out of thin air? Is it a scandi thing? Your fellow scandi has similar powers of complete fabr...

Yeah lmao Putin bad so it's ok. Minorities have always been collateral damage so the US can retain geopolitical supremacy anyway so no biggie - especi...

Anyway, this is what the Buffalo murderer was wearing and oh boy is it great that the US is funding these murderous fucking Nazis in Ukraine which are...

Man I was going to make a very angry serious post but now I am lolling and you've ruined my bad mood.

Anywhere where exchange is not impersonal: families, friends, strangers asking for directions in the street, co-workers passing pens to each other acr...

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/05/16/us/politics/biden-military-somalia.html The US running 'special military operations' in Somalia. Can't wait till th...

The entirety of pre-capitalist societies, for instance.

It's actually a pretty good litmus test to figure out who actually gives a shit about Ukraine and who's support is purely aesthetic based on Russia lo...

The cartoon intellect hath spoken

To be fair this assumes NATO has principals which it abides by, which of course, it does not.

No I think your line made a hard stop a few generations ago, evolutionary speaking. Not sure what you're asking. American foreign policy will be consi...

Mm, from one set of murdererous freaks to another.

Imagine taking seriously the idea that Ukraine will be in any way, shape, or form independant even if they do drive Russia out. Yet more fantasizing. ...

Yes Russia is absolutely losing and getting their ass handed to them in Ukraine but also they are Lord Voldermort and will conquer Europe if given hal...

Oh you're quite right I will continue to point out how wrong you are about everything ever and are basically a war slut. Except for this one thing! Bu...

Every time some hysteric waxes lyrical over Russia Bad, it's worth asking why they are. You'll either get the tautologous Russia bad because Russia Ba...

"Pax Americana is coming to an end. This is why we must continue and buy into pax Americana". Gotta love it. The West basically did all it could to ma...

Geo-identity politics. How fun. This @"Christoffer" bloke likes to whine about substance and the employs the most vapid form of ad hom imaginable. I m...

Oh, you hadn't heard that arguments are geolocked?

You wrote a three paragraph fantasy novella and I was complementing you.

No I think I will criticize anything I want, especially your overactive imagination, thanks. You can continue to cry about it, of course. And as it so...

I think @"Christoffer" should write the next Star Wars. A++ imagination.

The guiding light I follow in thinking about this is the exchange/production distinction. To the degree that capitalism ultimately makes a change at t...

Yes. And this makes sense - insofar as markets are a matter of impersonal exchange, their generalization effects a 'disembedding' of exchange from soc...

I tried to acknowledge what Lasch was talking about in the last paragraph of my response to Jamal. But the internationalization of markets is not in a...

Heh, it would have needed at least another paragraph, and things were getting a bit long. I could only gesture at it in the last line regarding change...

Man I can't wait till all the quacks here who worried themselves into a tizzy over CRT start discussing the dangers of GRT which just got ten black pe...

It's great that the guy who just murdered 10 black people in the US was inspired by the same Nazis that the US is handing a couple of billion dollars ...

Thanks for playing.

You're welcome to read the OP for why this is an irrelevancy. This is an anarchonism so terrible it does not deserve attention. Still not sure why you...

First, I don't know why you keep referring to 'free' markets, rather than markets. Not sure what this qualifier is doing. Second, this is far from an ...

I think the state remains as important as ever. What does happen though, is that the state fundamentally changes in its function and orientation. Wher...