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Semi-related, I hate the term "late-stage capitalism". It was invented by a Nazi over 120 years ago and in the meantime has constantly been applied to whatever
by legitster 5y ago
Semi-related, I hate the term "late-stage capitalism". It was invented by a Nazi over 120 years ago and in the meantime has constantly been applied to whatever the new thing is. And the implication is awful - "things suck and it's not my responsibility to make things better besides waiting for the revolution".
Please stop using this phrase unless you want to further alienate me from the position you are trying to make.
- johnday 5y ago> It was invented by a Nazi over 120 years ago That'd be a good trick, given that there were no Nazis until 1920.
- dragonwriter 5y ago> That'd be a good trick, given that there were no Nazis until 1920. It was in a work published starting in 1902 (though the part concerning late-stage capitalism was published in 1927) by a German Marxist [0] (at the time he wrote coined the term) who became a nationalist in the Weimar era to the point that some of his writings later in the early 1930s apparently aligned to a certain extent with Nazi ideology, but who was putting out anti-Nazi writings (actively suppressed by the Nazis) by the late 1930s. So, while “by a Nazi over 120 years ago” is not really accurate at all, it has some recognizable connection to facts. [0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Werner_Sombart https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Werner_Sombart