• flandish@lemmy.world
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    5 days ago

    just to be a pedantic ass: the “end stage” of capitalism is still capitalism. it’s like the end stage of cancer is still called cancer; we need to continue to reference the fact that capitalism is destroying all it touches.

    new phrases or labels only cleave attention spans in a world already designed (by capitalism) to have no focus.

    • Uriel238 [all pronouns]@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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      I don’t think it still counts as capitalism when it’s no longer a market economy. We get all our goods from an oligopoly that fixes prices like a cartel, only for all goods and services that consumers buy.

      It’s like when the body in question is more cancer than it is healthy tissue, the system doesn’t come close to behaving like its prior iterations.

      The only step from here is collapse into war and famine.

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      5 days ago

      Then the end stage of communism, is communism.

      What Stalin did, is the end of communism. What followed was the decline and lack of innovation.