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   Paul Garrard (paulgarrard@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 11-Dec-2024 22:36:50 JST Paul Garrard

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   @Radical_EgoCom where has capitalism ever worked?

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     𝗖 𝗔 𝗧 (radical_egocom@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 11-Dec-2024 22:43:50 JST 𝗖 𝗔 𝗧

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     That depends on what you mean by "worked." Capitalism has "worked" in the sense that it has achieved its intended purpose, that being privatizing the means of production into the hands of individual owners and compelling workers to sell their labor to capitalists for wages. It's not that capitalism hasn't worked. It's that the way capitalism works isn't in the interest of the workers, or at least it no longer is, since capitalism was useful in concentrating workers into... 1/2

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     𝗖 𝗔 𝗧 (radical_egocom@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 11-Dec-2024 22:44:08 JST 𝗖 𝗔 𝗧

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     ...a single class, a prerequisite that is required for the creature of socialism, but now what is in the best interest of workers is the abolition of capitalism and the construction of socialism. 2/2

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     Paul Garrard (paulgarrard@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 12-Dec-2024 06:40:57 JST Paul Garrard

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     @Radical_EgoCom any system that doesn't provide everyone with at least Maslow's basic needs should always be considered a failure.