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I think you just described more than half of all political debate, as e.g. libertarians and socialists define "capitalism" differently. When debating these ter
by api 8y ago
I think you just described more than half of all political debate, as e.g. libertarians and socialists define "capitalism" differently.
When debating these terms I define them and/or add qualifiers, e.g. "voluntarist capitalism" or "non-authoritarian capitalism" for the libertarian concept (which is not what we have!) and "state capitalism" or "corporatism" for what socialists usually mean.
Making matters worse it's become popular to deliberately muddy the waters by attempting to steal or corrupt definitions or use bland meaningless dog whistle terms. The latter I call 'duckspeak' after the term from 1984.