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> Their favourite iPhone is made by communists, with minerals mined by .. well I am not sure what you call em but they are not capitalists

Do you think those miners are volunteering out of revolutionary solidarity? Or perhaps "disposable cogs in the global supply chain" was the term you were looking for?

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> Do you think those miners are volunteering out of revolutionary solidarity?

Miners were getting paid in USSR too, are they capitalist too by this logic?

The USSR was a state-run economy. Workers got wages, sure, but the mines, the profits, the whole system was controlled by the government, not private owners chasing profit. Capitalism isn't just "getting paid," it's about who owns the means of production and how wealth circulates.

Exactly, so with that in mind can you please explain how mines in Africa controlled by war lords represent capitalism?

Because if they do, then capitalism is horrible, and if they do not, then the argument made by the OP is hypocritical

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