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Socialist Progressives

YoungDemCA

(5,714 posts) Sun Jun 14, 2015, 01:29 PM Jun 2015

Some Chomsky for ya on this Sunday...

What is called 'capitalism' is basically a system of corporate mercantilism, with huge and largely unaccountable private tyrannies exercising vast control over the economy, political systems, and social and cultural life, operating in close cooperation with powerful states that intervene massively in the domestic economy and international society. [/div

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Some Chomsky for ya on this Sunday... (Original Post) YoungDemCA Jun 2015 OP

Capitalism always seeks more... LakeVermilion Jun 2015 #1

LakeVermilion

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1. Capitalism always seeks more...

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Sun Jun 14, 2015, 02:03 PM

Jun 2015

It's up to governments to establish the rules. It's not in capitalism's nature to police itself.

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