What is better than Capitalism?

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morfe lux M
morfe lux Sep 8, 2003 20:17:32
Replying to Dog 3000

Capitalism may be pejorative in marx's eyes, but nowadays (i.e capitalism.org) it seems to have been adopted by the laissez faire bunch.

So can we please use the word for argument's sake mr Dog? ;-)

A anthonyqkiernan
anthonyqkiernan Sep 8, 2003 20:20:58
Replying to morfe lux

Surely capitalism is concerned with purely the making of more and more capital. And, not necessarily anything to do with the 'free market' as envisaged by Adam Smith?

D Dog 3000
Dog 3000 Sep 8, 2003 20:27:24
Replying to morfe lux

Absolutely the "projorative" has been adopted by it's suppporters . . . . Forbes magazine used to use "CAPITALIST TOOL" as their slogan, etc.

Just wanted to point out it's kind of a loaded term, one that comes out of Marxist (in my opinion extremely flawed) analysis. "Capital" isn't really the point, it's "free markets."

I prefer a individual-centric analysis to class-centric Marxism. You know, people being be free to make their own decisions and all that . . .