capitalism
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I feel there's great semantic dissonance in this here thread, people arguing for or against different things using the same term; which is usually a waste of time.
1. capitalism as the concept in the marxist sense, including class theory, materialism according to marx, engels and all its derivatives of the last 150 years
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2. capitalism as a concept in a strictly economical sense, politically neutral
3. capitalism as the libertarian concept, socio-economically
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3. capitalism as pedestrian substitute for the [free market economy] vs [centrally planned economy] binary
vs.
4. capitalism as the assumed political antagonist of democracy and policies of social welfare, redistribution, equality of opportunity (see marxism)
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5. capitalism as simplified and assumed cause of all kinds of selective immoral/excessive exploitations of the economic and political systems by individual or group actors in assumed positions of power (see marxism)
"the rich", kinda assumes poor people are more equal than others