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Is capitalism dead? Yanis Varoufakis thinks it is – and he knows who killed it (theconversation.com)
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[–] gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.works 8 points 2 years ago (2 children)

The morbidly funny thing is that the capitalists killed it. They had to wring every last drop of profit out of it, which makes it corrosive. Also the Cold War meant it Was Not Okay to move in any direction even close to socialist policy.

[–] randomsnark@lemmy.ml 2 points 2 years ago

"Capitalism contains the seeds of its own destruction".

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