• oneeyestrengthens@lemmy.world
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    8 months ago

    No I’m not. Capital usually refers to the individuals or corporate bodies that control or direct investment. Capital is the anticident to capitalism.

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      8 months ago

      And under capitalism, capital and labour are generally in conflict. Same way most capital owners are in conflict with each other (that’s basically the engine of growth.)

      Saying that labour battled for these advancements is no more an indictment of capitalism than the fact that McDonalds battles with Wendys for revenue.

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        8 months ago

        I’m not indicting capitalism. My point was that capitalism isn’t responsible for the last century of social improvement.