What do
I mean by capitalism?
Not exact matches
It is an extension of the principles, policies, and practices of
capitalism to the global scale aided
by the modern
means of research, communication and transportation.
But what do we
mean by these two terms,
capitalism and socialism?
Self - control must also
mean refusing to succumb to a culture that tells us our worth can be measured
by our economic output, a culture I can not help wanting to call «
capitalism.»
But if
by «
capitalism» is
meant a system in which freedom in the economic sector is not circumscribed within a strong juridical framework which places it at the service of freedom in its totality, and which sees it as a particular aspect of that freedom, the core of which is ethical and religious, then the reply is certainly negative.
In official party and state rhetoric liberation
meant both freedom from
capitalism and militarism (and thus from fascism and imperialism, since the first two were presumed to lead
by the logic of history to the second two) and freedom for socialism and communism (the one seen as a stage in the transition to the other).
I'm not sure what it
means to «serve Marx,» but if what you
mean by that is «understand the inherent weaknesses of unfettered
capitalism in economic terms and not be surprised when economies come violently crashing to a halt when capital and risk is valued too highly relative to labor and thus produces an unsustainable state of economic affairs,» then yes — in that case a Christian can certainly «serve Marx.»
The reordering of life according to such principles of rationalization resulted from the tendency of corporate
capitalism and the modern liberal state to expand their power, which they accomplished
by means of a bureaucratic structure and paternalistic ethos.
Since none of them seems to have paid much attention to the strict and historically precise technical description of what I (along with traditional economic historians)
mean by «
capitalism,» and all seem to confuse the concept (in good American libertarian fashion) with any sort of trade or barter in general, I can only recommend that they return to the original article and read the passages they apparently skimmed over the first time.
Even a glance at the issue's table of contents shows the article
by the Acton Institute's Kevin Schmiesing, «Another Social Justice Tradition: Catholic Conservatives,» which highlights and quotes CA: «The pope approves of that
capitalism «which recognizes the fundamental and positive role of business, the market, private property, and the resulting responsibility for the
means of production, as well as free human creativity in the economic sector.
I believe women are our equals & that the patriarchal society engendered
by capitalism & bigotry was wrong... but I believe that the man is
meant to be... the man.
So what civil society really
means is bourgeois civil society and it is inseparably tied up with the advancement of
capitalism and the seizure of power
by the bourgeoisie.
Crony
capitalism is the
means by which those who seize the power of the state use it to distribute the wealth of the state to a few oligarchs, mostly their friends, members of their families, or lovers — basically a narrow population — to control and dominate state wealth for the maintenance of the idea of private property.
If, based on a majority state ownership of the
means of production, ie, the government or one of its agencies, some of these
means of production are owned and operated
by private entities, it also does not
mean there is a mixed system combining socialism and
capitalism.
If, in a society based on private ownership of the
means of production some of these
means are company owned and operated
by a public entity, whether
by the government or one of its agencies, this does not
mean there is a mixed system combining socialism and
capitalism.
By the mid-1980s, Soviet leaders knew that they had to introduce supply and demand into the economy, but they couldn't bring themselves to try honest - to - God
capitalism, so they tried to decentralize decision - making and permit some elements of a market economy while retaining central price controls and government ownership of the
means of production.
AbEx
meant to its promoters (not to its creators) the freedoms promoted
by capitalism.
In 1968, Daniel Buren orchestrated an act of resistance against
capitalism by means of his signature stripes, which appeared on placards and banners and were painted over advertisements, as a form of guerrilla tactics.
They have investigated consumer culture and global
capitalism and what is
meant by a «sense of place.»
jferguson's example of the «unsustainable» tobacco farmer is an excellent illustration of what Schumpeter (mentioned
by Luke Warmer above)
meant by the «creative destruction» implicit in
capitalism.
You believe that because «energy» —
by which you
mean coal and petroleum fuel only — is so «core» or «central» in its role in an economy that it somehow is an exception to the general principles of
Capitalism, and thus any measure taken to make «energy» —
by which you always only
mean coal and petroleum fuel — is justified.
With climate change now more and more an establishment concern, and attempts to avert it now increasingly institutionalized in the established order, some have pointed to the «death of environmentalism» as an oppositional movement in society.12 However, if some environmentalists have moved toward capitalist - based strategies in the vain hope of saving the planet
by these
means, others have moved in the opposite direction: toward a critique of
capitalism as inherently ecologically destructive.
Main Entry: so · cial · ism Pronunciation: \ ˈsō - shə - ˌli - zəm \ Function: noun Date: 1837 1: any of various economic and political theories advocating collective or governmental ownership and administration of the
means of production and distribution of goods 2 a: a system of society or group living in which there is no private property b: a system or condition of society in which the
means of production are owned and controlled
by the state 3: a stage of society in Marxist theory transitional between
capitalism and communism and distinguished
by unequal distribution of goods and pay according to work done.
This is what is
meant by ecologizing
capitalism.»