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[–] umbrella@lemmy.ml 2 points 3 months ago (6 children)

rampant populism is a symptom of capitalists controlling the process through money. my country is exactly the same through us influence.

of course different countries different circunstances, but changing around the players of the game barely changes anything if we don't strive to change the game.

[–] timestatic 2 points 3 months ago (5 children)

Populism is existent in every democracy. It does not solely stem from capitalism. People like hearing simple answers to complex problems which doesn't work.

[–] umbrella@lemmy.ml 0 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (4 children)

far right populism, which is the one we are contending with in the world right now, is a capitalism thing.

who else would finance an agenda that almost exclusively benefits big capital?

[–] timestatic 1 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

Far right nationalism doesn't benefit capitalism the way you think it does. Do you have any evidence to go off of that big corpos are actually pushing far right agenda. In germany in Saxony for example the medium sized companies are running ad campaigns against far right extremism since we rely on immigration and skilled labor from abroad since we don't have enough people to fill all the jobs ourselves. No immigration would literally hurt the economy. I don't know what you're on about.

[–] umbrella@lemmy.ml -2 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

we have seen it do over and over again

[–] timestatic 2 points 3 months ago

Where have we seen this on a wide scale?

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