“…contemporary capitalism has become indistinguishable from Marx’s critique of it. The system that anti-leftist reactionaries claim to defend now exhibits every pathology that socialist theory predicted: extreme inequality, regulatory capture, the subordination of democratic governance to capital accumulation, the treatment of human needs as secondary to profit maximization.“
Remember that Karl Marx quote about “capitalists will sell you the rope you use to hang them?” That’s what this is about.
Brock goes on to say:
“And here we are. Oligarchs giving themselves massive tax cuts while cutting healthcare for the poor. Tech monopolies manipulating democratic discourse while lecturing about free speech. Financial institutions engaging in obvious fraud while warning about the dangers of regulation. Corporate interests writing their own environmental rules while the planet burns.”
