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David and Ed Miliband wear glasses in 90s🙏🏻

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"Even if the outward and visible manifestations of class were not as conspicuous as they do in fact remain, it would still be quite unwarranted to interpret this as evidence of the erosion, let alone the dissolution, of class divisions which are firmly rooted in the system of ownership of advanced capitalist societies. To achieve their dissolution or even their serious erosion would take rather more than working-class access to refrigerators, television sets, cars... and more even than death taxes, progressive taxation, and a host of other measures denounced and deplored by the rich as ruinous and crippling, yet which have had no radical impact upon economic inequality--not very surprisingly since this system of ownership operates on the principle that 'to him who hath shall be given,' and provides ample opportunities for wealth to beget more wealth."

--- Ralph Miliband

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For Marx, profit is not a motivation of conduct—even one ‘imposed’ by the system—it is an objective category that designates a part of realized surplus value. In the same way, the fundamental contradiction of the capitalist system, according to Marx, is not at all a contradiction between its social character and its ‘private purpose’, but a contradiction between the socialization of productive forces and their private appropriation. Thus the characterization of the existing social system as capitalist in no way depends on the motivations of the conduct of managers.” (Poulantzas, 1969, p.71)

Poulantzas, N. (1969). The Problem of the Capitalist State. New Left Review, I/58(November-December), 67–78.

Exactly. Marxist analysis is important, because it does not aim at an ethical critique of capitalism - capitalism isn’t about bad dudes doing bad things, but about the production of badness!