Left vs Right

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Originally Posted by Toehammer [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Although I find the normal communist nonsense tired and boring, one sane point the anti-capitalists make is that the majority of the financial services industry is just wasted energy (much like bitcoin mining). Of course, good capitalists make this same point. Wall street is principally middle men siphoning off money from people who produce something of value... can literally replace all advisors with broad market index funds and the world would be fine. The only knowledgeable people who say otherwise have skin in the game.

Originally Posted by V. Ilyich L.

The enormous dimensions of finance capital concentrated in a few hands and creating an extraordinarily dense and widespread network of relationships and connections which subordinates not only the small and medium, but also the very small capitalists and small masters, on the one hand, and the increasingly intense struggle waged against other national state groups of financiers for the division of the world and domination over other countries, on the other hand, cause the propertied classes to go over entirely to the side of imperialism. “General” enthusiasm over the prospects of imperialism, furious defence of it and painting it in the brightest colours—such are the signs of the times.