(February 17, 2023 at 4:45 pm)The Grand Nudger Wrote:(February 17, 2023 at 4:35 pm)Anomalocaris Wrote: 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.
QED, these are all "the west".
And there are different styles of capitalism in just the west.