RE: Earth's recent climate spiral.
February 17, 2023 at 4:35 pm
(This post was last modified: February 17, 2023 at 4:46 pm by Anomalocaris.)
To say private ownership for productive capital is the end all be all of capitalism is a little like saying Bible or the word of Jesus is the end all and be all of Christianity. To the true and shallow believer the Bible or the word of Jesus is all that matter, where as to those who wish to analyze the effect and care if the society really benefits, it is everything about Christianity that is not the word of Jesus that really matter, and for capitalism, it is how capitalism is actually manifested as an influence on the entire society that matters.
Nor is Western capitalism itself a monolithic thing either across time or space. If one looks below a very thin layer floating atop the surface, then capitalism as a wholistic manifestation in a society, or style of capitalism if you will, mean something quite different in Germany or France, or Italy, to say nothing of the Scandinavia, compare to what it is meant in the post-Reagan US or post-thatcher britain. Indeed capitalism take as a wholistic society wide thing, not just narrow sense of private ownership, meant something very different in the US and Britain of the post war era than it does now.
Nor is Western capitalism itself a monolithic thing either across time or space. If one looks below a very thin layer floating atop the surface, then capitalism as a wholistic manifestation in a society, or style of capitalism if you will, mean something quite different in Germany or France, or Italy, to say nothing of the Scandinavia, compare to what it is meant in the post-Reagan US or post-thatcher britain. Indeed capitalism take as a wholistic society wide thing, not just narrow sense of private ownership, meant something very different in the US and Britain of the post war era than it does now.
