Watching 'MASH' at the moment - it's a shame that Hawkeye's view (profoundly anti-war) on armed conflict is not more widely shared in this day and age. From Vietnam and Korea to Ukraine and Gaza. Africa torn apart by military conflict also! Both America and Russia, age-old foes implicated in many of these conflicts. The irony is that there's no difference between State Capitalism ('Communism') and Rentier Capitalism ('Capitalism'). From wikiP 'A state-capitalist country is one where the government controls the economy and essentially acts as a single huge corporation, extracting surplus value from the workforce in order to invest it in further production. This designation applies regardless of the political aims of the state, even if the state is nominally socialist.Some scholars argue that the economy of the ///Soviet Union/// and of the Eastern Bloc countries modeled after it, including ///Maoist China///, were state-capitalist systems ... ...' 'Some scholars' are correct.
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