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loquitor:
guyy's right.
plus he used robinsonade, which is a favorite old chestnut.
anyway, once the topic gets turned to actually existing capitalism and to it's history, you cannot win this argument.
the only way you can do it is to work against reference to actually exisiting capitalism and it's history.
so the thread is a religious question: do you believe in capitalism has the same sense as do you believe in the intercession of the saints or do you believe that dousing rods locate water or do you believe that there is a geometer god who made a geometrical world and ordered everything in it. do you believe that there are eternal forms that dance about the mind of this god, do you believe that meanings happen when reflections of these forms drop onto our mortal coil.
because "do you believe in capitalism" asks about a religious committment, you can believe anything you want. but it's nothing more than a religious question.
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a gramophone its corrugated trumpet silver handle
spinning dog. such faithfulness it hear
it make you sick.
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