Hinge Points Episode 1: Social Democratic Party Poopers
Chapo Trap House
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The Death Spirale of Capitalism Is Objectively Happening
Colonialism has always saved european capitalism. It's what created european capitalisit was, it was the plunder of of the west,. Thatah createdthe capital formations that built western capitalism. And also creates, which is so important to us today, consumers - yes, rightyou you get the rise of fashion and mass consumption over the courses of the nineteenth century. All these things are working to mitigate class consciousness. Yes? Like the marginal revolution in economics, right? That says, we shouldn't think about value in terms of the labour that goes into it, but in terms of its a value as in the eye of a consumer. You are no longer viewing a
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