> There have been a lot of sentences beginning "Capitalism needs..." around
> here lately. As far as I can tell, the only transhistorical thing you can
> say about capital's needs is profits. Aside from that, the thing is very
> flexible. Strong state, weak state; regulation or deregulation; slave
> labor or free labor; vertical integration or outsourcing; Jim Crow or
> "diversity."
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War or peace; religion or secularité; cartels or competition; social
democracy or fascism; empires or independence movements...