Since I have taken to critiquing capitalism on twitter several times over the course of this last year (for reasons I will explain further on in this piece), it’s only fair that I offer a more substantive and nuanced article on my thoughts, as, suffice to say, they are, as the world is, not in black and white. By obscure devices, I ended up gaining traction in a part of the internet that has many wealth gurus (Naval imitators at their very best, most failing even this mark), Trad E-Catholic larpers, and manosphere opportunists who are selling obscene courses on everything from pick up artistry to ‘frame’ control. Of course, I find all of these people to be uniquely pathetic in their own lanes, and perhaps I will have to chisel away at them one by one, but for now I will focus on the first.
It is a hilarious tell of the lowbrow and uneducated to immediately harken back to McCarthyism, by way of accusatory framing (he’s a communist/marxist/anarchist! (as if these schools of thoughts were interexchangeable)), as soon as anyone dares speak against the idol that is capitalism. The problem, as it were, is that of revolution or insurrection. It would seem that the major split in thought between these two broadly defined groups, that of the capitalists and that of the proletariat, is that the capitalist thinks that capitalism is the best form that a late-stage civilization can take, and that to call for change is not only foolish, but dangerous, in that something far worse might take its place (and the Eastern Europeans are perhaps the most acquainted with this), whereas the proletariat, the so-called working class, or the inferiors (as Ayn Rand might’ve been inclined to think of them as), sees this line of reasoning from the capitalists as that of any elite milieu—they will say and do anything to retain their power.
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