This brief comment was part of my introduction to the Old Mole Variety Hour on July 2, 2018 . It is part of my ongoing mission as an Old Mole to make capitalism look as bad as it really is, a task made necessary by capitalism’s never-ending capacity to appear neutral or even benign. Capitalism depends on the nation-state for many things, including organizing and defending its way of doing business in the world. Thus the State regulates and limits the ability of workers to organize to minimize their exploitation; it funnels profits to major corporations for the production of war and security materiel and for building and operating camps and prisons for the enemies of the state. The nation-state, of course, is only a social fiction, and yet it must command the loyalty and even the veneration of most of its people since it is in the holy name of the Nation that people are often required to lay down their lives on the battlefield for its preservation and honor. And it i...