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Capitalism's death toll (lemmy.ml)
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[–] sleeplessone@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

When you outline your ideal society, having antitrust laws, strong regulations, etc, you leave out analysis of political power.

They seem to have some inkling of that based on their last paragraph (emphasis mine):

So yes, there is an in-between. And it depends exactly how much business is left to the government and how much is left to companies. This balance is defined by politics.

[Y]ou haven’t actually engaged with Communists and their ideas, legitimately, and likely would agree with us.

Hopefully true based on what I just highlighted.

[–] Cowbee@lemmy.ml 6 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Good point. I do want to highlight, however, that "politics" for them seems to be divorced from the base, sovereign as an almost "outsider." The class struggle appears to be missing, along with the class character of the state. They very nearly grasp the essence of the Marxist position, if we remove the terminological differences, you're correct in pointing that out.