Capitalism, Not Welfare, Has Destroyed Faith in Freedom (c4ss.org)

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"The welfare state did not come about as the result of any idealistic “notion” on the part of do-gooders and bleeding-hearts. Such people may have helped sell it politically, but the architects of the welfare state were hard-headed capitalists who rightly understood its necessity for keeping capitalism to sustainable levels of extraction."

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[-] shotgun_surgery@links.hackliberty.org 1 points 11 months ago

It did if you define capitalism in a pretty particular way.

[-] n7gifmdn@lemmy.ca 1 points 11 months ago

what do you mean by that @shotgun_surgery@links.hackliberty.org

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