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Michael Parenti: Conspiracy And Class Power (Berkeley, CA)

Gangster Capitalism
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“If value is to be extracted from the labour of the many to go into the pockets of the few, this system has to be maintained. The conditions of hegemony must constantly be refortified. And that’s something that no one IBM or General Motors could do for itself… to put it simply the function of the capitalist state is to sustain the capitalist order. And it must consciously be doing that.” — Michael Parenti ...more
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Michael Parenti: Conspiracy And Class Power (Berkeley, CA)
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2021Aug 15
“If value is to be extracted from the labour of the many to go into the pockets of the few, this system has to be maintained. The conditions of hegemony must constantly be refortified. And that’s something that no one IBM or General Motors could do for itself… to put it simply the function of the capitalist state is to sustain the capitalist order. And it must consciously be doing that.” — Michael Parenti

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Gangster Capitalism

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