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#295 – Richard Wolff: Marxism and Communism

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Do You Think We're in Danger of Oversimplifying Capitalism?

The reason every small capitalist is trying to build market share, that's a polite way of saying they want to become a monopolist. The people who make it up through the layers of the bureaucracy and get to the top in these things have had to do things along the way that become selective. So you're saying that the forces of capitalism take over the minds of the people at the top and then they see being human essentially the basic. I would put it differently that the system is so set up. It's a little bit like natural selection. But yeah, to push back a little bit also because that's could be, this is a question also, do you think we're in danger

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