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submitted 7 months ago by Nath@aussie.zone to c/australia@aussie.zone

I'm sure this whole article comes as a shock to nobody, but it's nice to see it recognised like this.

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[-] novibe@lemmy.ml 10 points 7 months ago

“Capture”. Did no one study the bourgeois revolutions of the 17th and 18th centuries?

The capitalist class revolted against the aristocracy and built new systems of government to benefit them. That is the origin of the modern state and capitalism.

The state as we know it has always been just a tool of the capitalist class to control all other classes. That’s what the state is, a tool of class control.

[-] Spendrill@lemm.ee 8 points 7 months ago

I'm from the UK. We still have a monarch and an aristocracy, as well as a capitalist class. Even worse: they interbreed.

[-] novibe@lemmy.ml 1 points 7 months ago

You’re from the UK and you don’t know about the English Revolution..? Where a constitutional monarchy was instituted, and the capitalists came into power?

[-] Spendrill@lemm.ee 1 points 7 months ago

You talking about Cromwell or William and Mary?

[-] novibe@lemmy.ml 1 points 7 months ago

The whole period from the Wars of the Three Kingdoms until the Glorious Revolution.

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