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The 2020s Are About to Explode: What We Can Learn From Akira's Vision of Destruction and Rebirth

"Overthrowing the powerful forces of capitalism, white supremacy, and the like can seem impossible, but the injustices of today create the very conditions for their eventual destruction."

As somebody who lives in a country almost destroyed by social democracy and that has to take care of population fleeing from other neighbor countries straight destroyed by socialism when we don't have enough to survive ourselves I have always found these kind of phrases bizarre.

Specially because when I ask what do they mean with "Capitalism" its normally either Corporativism or Keynesianism and the later it's quite popular among left winged governments in LATAM.

Minos_Kurumada wrote:

"Overthrowing the powerful forces of capitalism, white supremacy, and the like can seem impossible, but the injustices of today create the very conditions for their eventual destruction." As somebody who lives in a country almost destroyed by social democracy and that has to take care of population fleeing from other neighbor countries straight destroyed by socialism when we don't have enough to survive ourselves I have always found these kind of phrases bizarre. Specially because when I ask what do they mean with "Capitalism" its normally either Corporativism or Keynesianism and the later it's quite popular among left winged governments in LATAM.

Capitalism is just a slanderous term against the middle class. You are correct there are underlying school, but the generalized hate toward 'a freedom of trade' I find backwards. Societies that embrace freedom do have some problems that come with the freedom. But to throw out freedom because some people choose to be jerks isn't good enough. The Free market is simply 'nature'.

Anyways, back on to the article. There is an old tale of some dude who is cursed to forever push a boulder up hill. And every time he gets to the top of the hill it rolls down and he must start over. Mankind is like that. We like that. Even in last year's hit, Tenki no Ko, that newer of the Shinkai movies, Tokyo goes through some bad times. People pick up. People rebuild. We adapt to our new reality and move on.

Capitalism is just a slanderous term against the middle class.

There is an old tale of some dude who is cursed to forever push a boulder up hill.

As somebody who lives in a country almost destroyed by social democracy and that has to take care of population fleeing from other neighbor countries straight destroyed by socialism when we don't have enough to survive ourselves I have always found these kind of phrases bizarre.

Specially because when I ask what do they mean with "Capitalism" its normally either Corporativism or Keynesianism and the later it's quite popular among left winged governments in LATAM.

Weber is sometimes accused of providing a circular definition of modern capitalism. He recognized that capitalism has often existed in the absence of “the spirit of capitalism” and that this set of rationalizing value-commitments was at the time only found in modern Western European and American capitalism (Weber, 1958 [1904–1905]: 52). He might be accused of explaining modern capitalism (the pursuit of profit on the basis of a rational organization of formally free labor when coupled with rationalizing values) in terms of one of its definitional attributes, the spirit of capitalism (the rationalizing values). His position is clarified if one recognizes that the Protestant ethic had positive consequences for the development of capitalism only when it legitimated actions within a specific mode of production, manufacture, and that the predominance of manufacture is understood to lead to the dominance of machine capitalism (where machine capitalism, not “modern capitalism,” is the explicandum). Machine capitalism may be defined without reference to either the Protestant ethic or the spirit of capitalism (p. 333, boldface mine).