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Source? NGram viewer finds no instances of “late stage capitalism” in books before 1984.

• jjgreen 3y ago
  "Late capitalism" (in German) attributed to Werner Sombart in 1902: https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/late_capitalism https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/late_capitalism
  • msla 3y ago
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  • IAmGraydon 3y ago
    I get it, but the modern use of the phrase “late-stage capitalism” implies that capitalism itself is a terminal cancer (where the term comes from), which is not at all what Sombart was trying to convey.
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