[David Bower]

Thanks for the reply.

You say ¨Unlike prior modes of power (and especially states), however, capitalists wield their power covertly and indirectly through the assertion of legal rights such as private property, not overtly and directly through violence as the rulers of a state do, and capitalists do so by encouraging constant social change instead of by enforcing a static social order.¨

Are you suggesting that some (possibly most or all) of the political unrest — e.g., Democrat versus Republican, BLM, Antifa, Boycott Israel (BDS), etc — in the United States is being fomented by wealthy capitalists?

How can capitalists exert power by encouraging civil unrest / social change ? What do capitalists have to gain from an unstable United States?  Can you give one or more examples of this exercise of control?

— CamelGuy

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