• mrcleanup@lemmy.world
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    3 months ago

    That’s like saying that since you never see deer ticks except with deer, they are the same animal as the deer. Just because things commonly appear together does not mean they are the same.

    • Cowbee [he/they]
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      3 months ago

      No, it isn’t. The economy forms the Base, while politics forms the Superstructure. You cannot have one without the other, and they are tangled.