Yeah, there seems to be a definition problem here. In the context of marxism, 'capitalism' is defined as any system in which a non-laboring class controls the distribution of the products of labor.
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i have no commitments to marx or von mises, and my take is that the defining feature of "capitalism" is that it answers 1) that person 2) its owner, where "socialism" answers 1) society but really central planners 2) society but really central planners
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Yup! And, it's also more than just binary. Marx makes a big deal about distinguishing feudalism from capitalism on the grounds that serfs control half their production & lords control the other half of serf production. So, from the beginning of this analysis, we have fractions.
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yeah, that's a thing that annoys me about marxism tbh, that the troop rallying is all around this class divide that even in marx's writing is permeable as shit and is a thousand times more permeable today than it was then
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