• JTode@lemmy.world
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    2 days ago

    I’m curious what the word “capitalism” means to you.

    Leaving Marx aside completely for a moment, I see it as “the use of capital” at the most grossly simplified tip of the iceberg. Which broadly means that capitalism refers to people with a lot of money already, using that money as a means of getting more money, without doing any sort of productive work themselves.

    And that is exactly the problem at hand, and what MBech meant by the word.

    I think you use it to broadly mean “our Western, non-communist system,” which is quite a lot to cram into a word.