Both these models have domains where the analysis they enable is predictive, & the use of the same term to describe very different (yet often-overlapping) things is the ultimate problem in trying to apply both analyses in conjunction with each other.
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(This is probably also part of the reason right-libertarians tend to strongly associate communism with large, highly-integrated states: they see capitalism as emblematic of atomized market-mediated individual association, so they figure anti-capitalism must be the opposite.)
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(That & the basically failed leninist project to create an integrated capitalist state to bootstrap underdeveloped countries into industrialized societies ready for communism.)
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To a marxist, the essential feature of capitalism is 'exploitation' (a fairly loaded term for 'the separation of management and labor'), so heavy integration and the inflation of middle-management is a purer form of capitalism.
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To a right-libertarian, the essential feature of capitalism is the use of a market, so the exact same tendency appears to them to be making it less pure, for basically the exact same reason. Maybe we ought to come up with new terms, for when we're talking across the aisle.
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yeah, there's a bunch of cards that are constantly being palmed, that to my thinking boil down to: 1) who determines what a given person is going to spend their time doing 2) who determines what will be done with a given resource hm. i could make a stupid fucking quad
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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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Yup. Some folks distinguish between 'marxian' (i.e., using marx's framework) and 'marxist' (i.e., sucking marx's dick). I don't, because I think most people who would benefit from a noob like me explaining shit won't get the distinction.
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