• KepBen@lemmy.world
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    2 years ago

    “We can’t have a revolution against capitalism until after we address all the symptoms of capitalism individually!”

    • Somebody deeply invested in solving problems and certainly not a beneficiary of this corrupt and broken system
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        No I promise whoever says that definitely fits my description of them. It’s not a strawman, it just looks like one because you assume I’m pretending to quote somebody I’m not.

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          Not necessarilly. They could very easilly be a victim of propaganda; they don’t have to be a benefactor of capitalism in order to believe in incrementalism (which keeps capitalism as the main economic force).

          Neoliberalism drilled deep into American consciousness a while ago.