
Really cannot tell but hopefully he's just trolling, otherwise this Matthew Yglesias must be some kind of fucked up sUpEr gEnIuS using what appears to be a moronic degree of false equivalence in attempting to make a wholly vacuous assertion.
I am blazed af and in the mood for being a bloody pest, so would like to speculate on some random shit.
For obvious reasons,...I'll ignore all that mindless nonsense prior to -" What went wrong?"-
and the pointing of a crooked finger at a supposed boogeyman-
-"CaPiTaLiSm".
- "Capitalism" -
(as in the commonly proliferated [¿mis?]understanding of this [¿illusory?] concept)
What if "Capitalism" is not to blame for anything?
Sorta like blaming the 'Tooth Fairy' anytime shits going sideways.
Maybe it has always been nothing more than merely a shiny fiction employed to masquerade as though representative of legitimate 'Free Enterprise'?
Perhaps the same lovely, caring, benevolent types who brought us "Capitalism" are also who gave us 'Communism'?
What if these cretanous swamp dwellers have long been perfecting their sly systems of dominance?
Possibly systems which, as demonstrated throughout recorded history, seem all too common and always function via oppositional equalizers maintaining an illusion of division?
Maybe this false dichotomy IS manufactured so to create the powerful means with which to continually mislead and compel the ignorant masses to act as directed,...of which could be perceived as being "voluntary choice", "patriotic duty", etc?
Wouldn't such implementation of such fundamental duelistic nature inherently manifest the essential [false] societal sense/belief of any and all justifications necessary to counterbalance a fictitious enemy,..."for the wellbeing of the nation"?
["Communists are the enemy of Capitalism"]
"....However, this is only double talk designed to bolster the superstructure of delusion that Communists are the enemies of all Capitalists. But Communists, like the super rich families, are not the enemies of MONOPOLY CAPITALISM: they are the foes of FREE ENTERPRISE." (Untitled manuscript of David Hill, p. 215.)"
Read this,...or don't,...Irdaf.