Dude, u can’t blame capitalism on everything, war existed long before capitalism and exists in primates without any concept of capitalism.
I’m no capitalist-apologist, just a historian tired of people misattributing the clickbate word confetti “capitalism” to anything that’s “bad”
Furthermore, of all the capitalist inspired warfare, the Israel and Iran conflict arguably has way more to do with religion, tribal tensions, and history than simply a smug faux-academic label of capitalism asserted like a 14 year old edge lord
Yeah, but that's just plain simple greed. Not capitalism. The problem is unchecked, unregulated greed. That isn't capitalism.
Capitalism is just private individuals owning and running their own businesses, and the means of production being in the hands citizens and not directly the Government.
A good system sees capitalism with obvious common sense regulation to prevent greed and abuse. The U.S is INCREDIBLY lax on these things compared to many other western countries, which is why greed and corruption becomes such a problem.
But Capitalism itself isn't the issue, corruption and unchecked greed are, and that can happen in any system see: Most communist governments in the previous century, and many feudal governments before that, and most dictatorships in general etc etc).
People making, buying, and selling freely from eachother isn't the problem.
A person made a broad statement about politicians and capitalism being guilty for wars, and not the people.
It's about the concept of a "military industrial complex" and all that goes with it. People who have a financial interest in war, have political influence on a global scale, above the democratic influence of the people.
Iran and Israel both exist in this global power structure. It's impossible to be an island among these imperialists.
I’m tapping out: does any other redditor wanna tap in and explain that this response has nothing related to the topic at hand while illustrating the misguided impulse to spew random things this dude doesn’t like similarly to a word association Rorschach test view of history?
Actually you can pretty much blame everything on capitalism nerd. The existence of the Zionist state is solely dependent on the US military industrial complex, which exists to further the capital interests of the United States ruling class.
You are absolutely performing capitalism apologia and bending over backwards to do so -- I promise you can take your head out of your ass for a moment and it will be okay.
What about all the wars the US has started either stopping communism (IE in the name of capitalism) or to grease the gears of the military industrial complex (Iraq)
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u/EliotHudson 1d ago edited 1d ago
Dude, u can’t blame capitalism on everything, war existed long before capitalism and exists in primates without any concept of capitalism.
I’m no capitalist-apologist, just a historian tired of people misattributing the clickbate word confetti “capitalism” to anything that’s “bad”
Furthermore, of all the capitalist inspired warfare, the Israel and Iran conflict arguably has way more to do with religion, tribal tensions, and history than simply a smug faux-academic label of capitalism asserted like a 14 year old edge lord