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Re: Big business and capitalism are becoming less and less popular with Americans

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The capitalists are no longer capitalists. Somehow we went from capitalism is the best system because it most efficiently distributes scarce resources to “give us all the money and power in the world because our large language model is going to usher in Star Trek!!!” The grifters have one. Though you could equally assign the blame to the idiots who fall for it.

Efficient distribution of resources is the purpose of governments, not capitalism. No one goes into business with the goal of more efficiently distributing resources, but to increase their wealth as much as possible. That's the one and only goal of capitalism - to make capitalists rich.

The capitalism your comment bemoans the death of, like pure free markets and homo economicus, has only ever existed in economics textbooks. In the real world it has always been grifters and parasites all the way down.

Re: Big business and capitalism are becoming less and less popular with Americans

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

> Capitalism requires a free market with price discovery. Socialism != centrally planned/non-market economy, at least not in any political theory I've come across. Many socialist-ideologues of the mid 20th century landed on central planning as a particular implementation of its ideals (and one which was amenable to their own totalitarian inclinations), but "socialism" was a direct response to industrialized labor of…

When most people talk about socialism they mean the Marxist-Leninist phase after capitalism and before communism (of course we never get to communism because the socialist parasites never want to leave the socialist phase) which is characterised. You talk about socialism as a synonym of communism; Marx itself used them interchangeably in the 19th century - but it's not the common meaning in this century in my experie…

I'm not really familiar with this nomenclature, the left-anarchists I know generally consider themselves "libertarian" or "market" socialists (or just “anarcho-socialists””). I'm definitely interested to understand your point a bit further; good you point me to some left-anarchist thought around communism vs. socialism?
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