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Capitalism Is Like This Fractal Thing Where Anything That Contains An Element Of Capitalism Anywhere Inside It Is Just Something That Turns Into Capitalism. It Is An Incredibly Defeatist Attitude. If You Choose To Look At Reality That Way, I Suppose You Can, But You Have To Do Enormous Violence To Reality To Do So Consistently.

Traditional Hedonism...was Based On The Direct Experience Of Pleasure: Wine, Women And Song; Sex, Drugs And Rock 'n' Roll; Or Whatever The Local Variant. The Problem, From A Capitalist Perspective, Is That There Are Inherent Limits To All This. People Become Sated, Bored...modern Self-illusory Hedonism Solves This Dilemma Because Here, What One Is Really Consuming Are Fantasies And Day-dreams About What Having A Certain Product Would Be Like.

There Are Markets Extending From Mali, Indonesia, Way Outside The Purview Of Any One Government Which Operated Under Civil Laws, So Contracts Weren't, Except On Trust. So They Have This Free Market Ideology The Moment They Have Markets Operating Outside The Purview Of The States, As Prior To That Markets Had Really Mainly Existed As A Side Effect Of Military Operations.

All Societies Are Based On A Sort Of Minimum Level Of Communism. Otherwise, You Couldn't Have Any Social Relations At All.

What We're Already Doing Is Communism. The First Step We Have To Make Is To Realize That We're Already Closer To It Than We Think.