- 31 Dec 2015 21:50
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Capitalism was a pejorative term created by Marxists, designed to deny or least invalidate or de-legitemise the democratic, social and economic advances of more market based industrialised societies. To Marxists it means dictatorship of the bourgeois. Libertarians have chosen to embrace the term for the very opposite ideological agenda. the rest seem to have accepted it uncritically. there are number of these empty signifiers or at least largely or substantially empty signifiers that confuse and delay the debate.
Terrorism is another empty signifier, but I don't put energy into challenging that because its a useful term to evade the Liberal thought police. You can call for mass killing, torture, ethnic cleansing, anything really as long a you always remember to add the term terrorist - Love it. The Ukrainans against the Russians, the Syrians and of course Putin in Syria have all jumped on the bandwagon. Our Western leaders have no one to blame but themselves.
quetzalcoatl wrote:From this perspective, you could view capitalism not as a formal ideological systemPrecisely my objection to the term Capitalism. It conflates a technological revolution, beginning in the late eighteenth century with exactly as you put it: "a formal ideological system." So capitalism seems to mean the set of industrialised societies minus the set of industrialised societies that are categorised as socialist. The latter can be defined to include no societies to every modern society depending on the ideological or any proportion in between depending on your ideological needs.
Capitalism was a pejorative term created by Marxists, designed to deny or least invalidate or de-legitemise the democratic, social and economic advances of more market based industrialised societies. To Marxists it means dictatorship of the bourgeois. Libertarians have chosen to embrace the term for the very opposite ideological agenda. the rest seem to have accepted it uncritically. there are number of these empty signifiers or at least largely or substantially empty signifiers that confuse and delay the debate.
Terrorism is another empty signifier, but I don't put energy into challenging that because its a useful term to evade the Liberal thought police. You can call for mass killing, torture, ethnic cleansing, anything really as long a you always remember to add the term terrorist - Love it. The Ukrainans against the Russians, the Syrians and of course Putin in Syria have all jumped on the bandwagon. Our Western leaders have no one to blame but themselves.
Progressives lie scattered on Woke's highway, Diverse ghosts crowd the young child's fragile eggshell mind.