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No, the world isn’t heading toward a new Cold War – it’s closer to the grinding world order collapse of the 1930s (theconversation.com)

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I do think liberalism carries the blame for being an opiate of the people more powerful and more closely bonded with capitalism than religion ever was. The focus on individual worth and individual freedom has made people way more amicable to being pitted against each other in a capitalist race to the bottom than even 19th/early 20th century conservatism.

Also local capitalism is awful too. Even just one town can have landlords and serfs, merchants and beggars, guildmasters and abused interns.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Capitalism favors the individual to self isolate inorder to only pursue monetary value.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

Yes, and liberalism helps justify that by focusing so heavily on individualist worth and wellbeing. Hence "opiate of the people".