Amazing video by Technology Connections. It’s a long one, but don’t miss his 30 minute angry rant at the end.

  • queermunist she/her@lemmy.ml
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    19 hours ago

    Adam Smith didn’t invent capitalism. It’s not a philosophy, it was an economic system that emerged from certain material relations. Liberalism, and fascism, are just two of the ideological frameworks that can reproduce capitalism’s material base and both of which emerge from the material base of capitalism.

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      12 hours ago

      Ah, I see, I guess we don’t have to consider what liberals think and how they view the world, because after all we possess the objective truth and their opinions don’t matter.

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        12 hours ago

        We don’t have to consider capitalism to have some kind of doctrine Orthodoxy, as if Adam Smith was a prophet and that deviations from liberalism aren’t capitalist. It’s still capitalism even if it isn’t what Adam Smith envisioned.

        Billionaires believe in capitalism, even if they don’t believe in liberalism.