well, i'm in the middle of something in meat-space at the moment so will only say what's historically obvious (but apparently not so much in the vacuum of us conservative politics these days)---there's no contradiction between capitalism and democratic socialism. the latter is a policy direction that stabilizes the former in particular directions which are shaped by particular conceptions of what outcomes are socially desirable. american conservatives apparently support class war. they may pretend it's something else, but it isn't. so they endorse policies that exacerbate class war. social democrats tend to think class war destabilizing. for example.
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a gramophone its corrugated trumpet silver handle
spinning dog. such faithfulness it hear
it make you sick.
-kamau brathwaite
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