UNLOCKED: Episode 57 - High Crimes of Empire (Empire and the Deep State: Part 1)
American Exception
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How Capital Has Always Been Involved in the State
Since the emergence of capitalism, capital has always been directly linked with the state and with organized crime. These were colonial companies that were ultimately seeking profits. They weren't just doing it to spread the white man's burden. White supremacy was created as the justification for that colonial plunder. And so this is a problem with the libertarian point of view. They want to worship a capitalism that never existed. There was never a capitalism that was benevolent and osensual and free, you know, commerce among people. You had the closing off of the commons, which was really the depriving of people in under feudalism of the one sort of thing that they had,. The commons to be able to sustain themselves
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