Hi, I'm the downvoter. When I downvoted the post, the phrase "The end of capitalism is a matter of ideology for the author" wasn't there, or I just missed it e

Hi, I'm the downvoter. When I downvoted the post, the phrase "The end of capitalism is a matter of ideology for the author" wasn't there, or I just missed it entirely (in which case, my bad), so it looked to me like a simple ad-hominem with no rhyme or reason. Now I see what the message meant, so I retracted the downvote. Next time I'll make sure to ask for clarification before hitting the down arrow. As an aside, Mason can say whatever he wants, but every time I read him I get the distinct impression that while he may have some left-tinted idea, an a whole I wouldn't define him as "very left-wing". He looks more like a proponent of some sort of "humane capitalism". > As Wikipedia points out "In another New Statesman article published the following year he (Mason) described himself as an "actual Marxist". Not that it matters much, but I can't find it on https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matt_Mason_(author) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matt_Mason_(author) (I also checked if someone removed it today, but there's nothing in the article's history that removed that phrase).