Agreed. It's like how the investors in private prisons aren't wagering that there'll be more crime, there wagering that the capitalist state will imprison more people. If you ask any Marxist whether the American Empire will buy more weapons and imprison more people, the vast majority would say yes.
you aren't gambling on the outcomes of military battles you are gambling on the military buying more weapons
Agreed. It's like how the investors in private prisons aren't wagering that there'll be more crime, there wagering that the capitalist state will imprison more people. If you ask any Marxist whether the American Empire will buy more weapons and imprison more people, the vast majority would say yes.