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<br><span style="position:relative;top:-10px;"> In short, capitalism is a metabolic corruption of production while Capitalism is [[:en:Base and superstructure|<span style="color:cyan;">culture</span>]] built on that base.<span></span><br></li> | <br><span style="position:relative;top:-10px;"> In short, capitalism is a metabolic corruption of production while Capitalism is [[:en:Base and superstructure|<span style="color:cyan;">culture</span>]] built on that base.<span></span><br></li> | ||
<li>Q:<span style="color:lemonchiffon;"> How do you know if you're trapped in a pernicious conception of Capitalism?</span><br> | <li>Q:<span style="color:lemonchiffon;"> How do you know if you're trapped in a pernicious conception of Capitalism?</span><br> | ||
<span style="position:relative;top:5px;"> A:<span style="color:lime;"> If you think everything in the end is about money. Nothing can be done without it and it is the solution to every problem¹. Many [[:en:Base and superstructure|<font color=lime>subsidiary customs</font>]] follow from this abiding faith in Capital³.<br>A common concomitant complex of misunderstandings surround the nature of money, a doubled fetish if you will, notably obfuscations and denials of its essence as an abstraction and expansion of the value exchange that occurs in barter.</span></span | <span style="position:relative;top:5px;"> A:<span style="color:lime;"> If you think everything in the end is about money. Nothing can be done without it and it is the solution to every problem¹. Many [[:en:Base and superstructure|<font color=lime>subsidiary customs</font>]] follow from this abiding faith in Capital³.<br>A common concomitant complex of misunderstandings surround the nature of money, a doubled fetish if you will, notably obfuscations and denials of its essence as an abstraction and expansion of the value exchange that occurs in barter.</span></span></li> | ||
<li>Q: <span style="color:lemonchiffon;">Aren't Capitalist relations we are familiar with today necessary, inevitable?<br> | <li style="position:relative;top:5px;">Q: <span style="color:lemonchiffon;">Aren't Capitalist relations we are familiar with today necessary, inevitable?<br> | ||
A: <span style="color:lime;">No, they are wholly based on #1. Before industrial Capitalism there were other relations of production. After it there will be something else. Production always returns to its material basis in use values.</span></li> | A: <span style="color:lime;">No, they are wholly based on #1. Before industrial Capitalism there were other relations of production. After it there will be something else. Production always returns to its material basis in use values.</span></li> | ||
<li>Q:<span style="color:lemonchiffon;"> Don't buying and selling and money imply the Capitalist model of the enterprise/firm, joint stock ownership by non producers, etc.?<br> | <li>Q:<span style="color:lemonchiffon;"> Don't buying and selling and money imply the Capitalist model of the enterprise/firm, joint stock ownership by non producers, etc.?<br> | ||
