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by raccoonDivider 886 days ago
> So to have something to point to, the CIA just went out and covertly funded a bunch of cultural outlets. Make of it what you may that the government was secretly subsidizing these and just how capitalist that is or isn't...

Was the argument ever about a planned economy versus a government that does nothing but foreign policy? Subsidies in a capitalist system don't make it non-capitalist.