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<li>Q:<span style="color:lemonchiffon;"> What exactly do you mean by 'Capitalism'?</span><br> | <li>Q:<span style="color:lemonchiffon;"> What exactly do you mean by 'Capitalism'?</span><br> | ||
<span style="position:relative;top:5px;"> A:</span><span style="position:relative;top:5px;color:lime;"> Good question. Without qualification and in the domain of concepts, by 'small c' capitalism I mean a transformation that occurs in human industry where the production becomes for exchange value primarily and only secondarily for the good produced. As a social phenomenon a qualifying term is required, e.g. Early Capitalism, State capitalism, Philosophical capitalism (e.g. Anarcho-, Objectivism, ...), etc. In ordinary discourse in most countries, Rentier Capitalism (RC) in sole or shared command ( | <span style="position:relative;top:5px;"> A:</span><span style="position:relative;top:5px;color:lime;"> Good question. Without qualification and in the domain of concepts, by 'small c' capitalism I mean a transformation that occurs in human industry where the production becomes for exchange value primarily and only secondarily for the good produced. As a social phenomenon a qualifying term is required, e.g. Early Capitalism, State capitalism, Philosophical capitalism (e.g. Anarcho-, Objectivism, ...), etc. In ordinary discourse in most countries, Rentier Capitalism (RC) in sole or shared command (typically with a clerisy or bourgeois representative system) of the economic heights is implicitly what is referred to, the current reigning form outside China. I don't in general say RC or the whole noun phrase, unless to make a distinction clear, it can be assumed. RC is the distinctive form based on wage labour, the joint stock firm, and the state and other institutions that serve it as a class conspiracy usurping social production for its private gain.<br> | ||
<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> | ||