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Shouldn't we stop and define "capital" for a moment?
Reader comment on item: The Left's New Enemy: "Empire"
Submitted by Abu Nudnik (Canada), Jun 22, 2010 at 21:33
Can there really be a world without Capitalism? Isn't Communism State Capitalism? i.e. doesn't the state organize all capital?
Let's be clear. Air, water, people, intelligence, planning, resources, factories... all these things are capital and the arrangement of these things to produce things of value is Capitalism.
Who is to determine what things have value? People themselves or an "enlightened" (arrogant and tyrannical) elite?
Power is their aim and Fascism is clearly their path despite their anit-fascist rhetoric. Talk is cheap.
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