AfD polls lower than Trump, did any of those others poll higher?

It’s more like 30% and that’s with Americans being some of the most wildly mis-educated people out there. I’m sick of seeing sortition shit, but sicker still of misanthropy.

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Slave labor didn’t stop being integral element after the Civil War. It was scaled back, but it’s still both locally an integral element of the economies of many states (via prison labor, to say nothing of how under-the-table migrant dealings go) and via imperialism, etc. used abroad.

I’m not attacking Smith. The “invisible hand” thing is silly and short-sighted, but his work more broadly was the foundation for Marx economically. I’m attacking capitalism as it has existed in history, where it has virtually always used slave labor as an integral element.

Can you not try to construct a syllogism for me? Stating one obvious fact is not an argument.

You’re asking me to make your argument for you. Use you words.

People might have an easier time understanding a statement if it’s a full sentence.

Then why does the US government constantly do it? Are they stupid?

Isn’t this the official story? That they’re a clumsy giant who just keeps oopse whoopsie-ing into all these atrocities with no selfish motive?

Next you’ll say that you like capitalism, but not the kind that uses slave labor as an integral element.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/War_profiteering

The government isn’t something that exists above society, but is a facet of it. The MIC directly profits from wars, it pays politicians, politicians are motivated toward hawkish positions, the taxpayer is made to subsidize this. There are many other circuits discussed in the article, as concern the impact war has on the consumer market, how it’s used for imperialism, etc.

Ultimately, wealth comes from labor, but the arrangement of war profiteering is extremely good at extracting wealth from labor in all sorts of ways.