• Aceticon@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    2 hours ago

    One of the greatest “achivements” of Neoliberalism was to indoctrinate into people the idea that the only Power is the State, even whilst they made sure in most of the World that Money was a far stronger Power than the State.

    The way of think of old was far more about how common people need to have Power to face other kinds of Power, and whilst, granted, it led to the fuckups such as the Dictatorship Of The Proletariat (self described as “Communist”) countries and Fascism, it’s also the basis for replacing the Monarchy first with Republicanism and later with Democracy so that every citizen has, through the vote, a measure of control on how the Power of the State is used (exactly the Power-for-everybody that Neoliberalism activelly undermined in favor of the power of Money, by pressing for the State to exercise as little power as possible when it comes to any area were Money has power)

    So what the OP posted is just another piece of anti-Democratic propaganda, shaped to appeal to Leftwingers but, none the less, designed to reinforce the idea that the State is the only Power and that it oppresses the many, whilst activelly hiding the present day reality that the State has way less power than Money and the oppression exercised via the State is entirelly Money using it as a puppet.