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Subject: Re: telnetvision video to
From:    Arelor
Date:    Thu Nov 05, 2026 14:34

Subject: Re: telnetvision video to ansi
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  Re: Re: telnetvision video to ansi
  By: poindexter FORTRAN to Arelor on Thu Nov 05 2026 07:45 am

 >
 >  Wally Gordon's "capitalism and violence" argues that capitalism
 >  produces structural and political violence through competition,
 >  inequality, unemployment, and militarism.
 >

You often find all those things in non-capitalist systems, including systems in which the general population is not supposed to own anything meaningful aka capital. See most political systems before the 18th century, including quasi-democratic ones.

In any case, even if I was to admit that those things are inherent traits of capitalism (which I don't), those elements are not contained in the ideological foundation of capitalist movements, with the exception of competition. This is, pro-capitalists didn't sit down and wrote a manifesto arguing that inequality, unemployment and militarism are to be imposed by force. Meanwhile, Communists believe a dictatorship of proletariats must be imposed as the ways to extinguish the State.


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