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bacasper
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| mises wrote: |
But when has America not been at war? Or as Greenwald puts it, who was the last president who wasn't a "war president". Hedges writes a warning to a society drunk on war and war narratives. |
As I've said before, capitalism requires permanent war. |
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mises
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| Posted: Fri Jun 19, 2009 7:49 am Post subject: |
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| bacasper wrote: |
| mises wrote: |
But when has America not been at war? Or as Greenwald puts it, who was the last president who wasn't a "war president". Hedges writes a warning to a society drunk on war and war narratives. |
As I've said before, capitalism requires permanent war. |
No it doesn't. When was the last time Switzerland or Singapore, or for that matter Hong Kong were at war?
America is drunk on narratives. Too many people have seen Saving Private Ryan, Black Hawk Down and Independence Day and love the idea of the US doing global good work. Problem in North korea? Shit, send in the Marines! On TV, it always goes over so easily. |
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bacasper
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| Posted: Fri Jun 19, 2009 8:10 am Post subject: |
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| Capitalism does require permanent war, most markedly in its terminal stages. Once they are done plundering the US, you don't think they'll move on down the food chain until they eventually get to Singapore, Switzerland, and even Swaziland? |
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mises
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| Posted: Fri Jun 19, 2009 8:15 am Post subject: |
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Capitalism is private property and the aggregation and dissemination of information as a process to allocate scarce resources.
No, "capitalism" doesn't make war. States do. War makes states and states make war, remember?
State-capitalism is another beast entirely. |
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