Oh look, that thing they said definitely wasn’t happening was happening…

  • GuyDudeman
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    1 year ago

    People think 1984 is about totalitarian government. It’s really about totalitarian capitalism.

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        1 year ago

        Oh thank you thank you thank you! Every time I post something like that on Reddit, I get a swarm of libs and right-wingers trying to get semantic on me to prove that capitalism isn’t just feudalism in disguise. Like, “But under Capitalism you can just change your employer! You couldn’t do that under feudalism!” and I am like - oh, so you’re saying it IS just like Feudalism, except we haven’t reached the “Every town is a Company Town” stage yet. Got it.

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            1 year ago

            I think what happens is that people don’t remember that we’re using “capitalism” as shorthand for “the current and all previous western economic systems”.