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Kinda curious how “capitalism” as an ideal only exists in the heads of people opposed to it. The term points to a series of historic pseudo-equilibrium conditions that are unified only by being paths of least coordination resistance through their eras.
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Seriously? You think Ayn Rand = capitalism? AynRandism is a marginal religion aspiring to take over capitalism. It may have a few big believers like Thiel or Koch, but 90% of revealed capitalists have never heard of her, while 100% of Christians for eg have heard of the Bible.
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our OT was about "capitalism as an ideal". Rand might have little to do with the operations of real capitalism, but functions as an important point of ideology, with "big believers" including Alan Greenspan. Its driven the propaganda mills for years.
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This is like claiming Ayn Rand is to capitalism as Jesus or Martin Luther are to Christianity or Marx, Lenin, or Mao to communism. It simply isn’t true. There is an impedance mismatch between the scale, scope and contents of the thing being pointed to by the term versus Randism
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This is like equating Christianity to a particular powerful but minority church like LDS, but without there being any larger ideological contours like belief in resurrection or the holiness of the Bible that are better overall ideological signifiers of all Christianity