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[–][deleted] 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

capitalism: just let the rich do whatever they have been doing, no regulation, no looking at history from a class warfare perspective, just believe in the religious idea of an invisible hand to save you from their depredations.

[–]worm 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

It seems to me that he's not against capitalism so much as he is against intelligent life in general.

It is natural for many animals to "turn nature into commodities". The simple act of eating, common to almost all animal life that I can think of, is itself an act of turning nature into a commodity, used to sustain the eater's life. The act of creating a den, burrow, or any form of shelter which the great apes, beavers, burrowing rodents and various insects do is again to commodify nature, turning the natural into artifice and benefitting from it. To claim that all such creatures perform these tasks because of capitalism would be ludicrous, and if Parenti cannot even see this then he should be treated as the clown that he appears to be.