/lit/ - Literature

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No one defends "capitalism" except for neoliberals. It's a meaningless abstraction, at best just a bunch of property laws that have always existed in one way or another. It's only relevant today because people have associated it to the industrial revolution so no one really knows how to deal with these changes.

The defense of capitalism is useful because it creates a narrative both neoliberals and marxists like: the idea that the only meaningful dialectic to be had in our time is the dychotomy of capitalism vs socialism. This is encouraged by both groups because one thinks the system is proved to be superior and therefore eternal and the other thinks it's constantly at its "late stage" and that the only option of 'not capitalism' that will be popular and considered just among the masses is their idea of socialism.

If communists and other neo jacobinists didn't exist some military power would have already culled the bankers and introduced some form of populist monarchy, which was always the standard in human history. But because of this autistic borderline religious cult created around the ideas of the enlightment and the french revolution between liberals and commies they managed to stall the inevitable while preserving a democratic façade aimed at masking their mundane imperial administrations by convincing the masses that they were the true upholders of whatever it is that gave us worker rights, trains, penicillin and smartphones.