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I mention it because at the end of his blogpost he says: "there will be no wars in Europe in my lifetime, and imperialism has been defeated. "

I'll also point out that:

- The imperialistic part of the USA is the socialist part of USA (which does exist and gets larger every day).

- Empires are not economically profitable as a whole, only a few people profit.

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Which part of the US is socialist? There is none.

If you mean the army, it’s not socialist. The workers don’t have democratic control over the means of production. It’s just a planned economy, plenty of those exist in dictatorships of the bourgeoisie (like Amazon).

The most ironic part of the whole capitalism vs communism business was that both had exactly the same structure... In different strata of the society. The all-encompassing planned economy of (mega)corporations vs the state. Both the preferred habitat of a certain sort of politicking bureaucrat.

Of course, in properly-functioning capitalist systems, you can and should fight and Ally with the megacorps with start-ups. In socialist countries...

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