• Prunebutt@slrpnk.net
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    1 month ago

    It’s an economic system for a state

    Umm, we’re in international economy. There’s no capitalist state that doesn’t do international trade.

    And the states are in competition with one another. That’s why tarifs exist.

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        1 month ago

        International economy means that there is a competition going on between the nations.

        If Chinese companies sell more EVs, Germany’s economy suffers.

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              Lol come on man.

              I said capitalism is the economic system of a state. You started going on about international trade, making it sound like “nations compete therefore capitalism is all trade”.

              I tried to help you understand by proposing the question of whether a communist state can trade with a capitalist state (it can). So that you understand that capitalism is not defined by international trade.

              I think you forgot what you were arguing about?

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                Lol come on man.

                Don’t try to gocha me with your leading questions, “man”!

                said capitalism is the economic system of a state. You started going on about international trade, making it sound like “nations compete therefore capitalism is all trade”.

                Your conclusion is false. It’s actually: Capitalism requires nations to compete.

                I tried to help you understand by proposing the question of whether a communist state can trade with a capitalist state

                If a “communist” state (which is an oxymoron, since communism is by definition stateless) trades with a capitalist state, it’s in a capitalist context. The states interact on a capitalist world market.

                So that you understand that capitalism is not defined by international trade.

                International trade is a consequence of capitalism in a world of nation states.