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> So "late stage capitalism" means - or at least implies - that it's the form capitalism takes before capitalism finally ends That's not how terms work. Maybe
by Ensorceled 3y ago
> So "late stage capitalism" means - or at least implies - that it's the form capitalism takes before capitalism finally ends
That's not how terms work. Maybe you don't like the phrase but it has a meaning, you can't just decide a commonly used term means something else and then debate that strawman.
> If you wanted to use a different term to describe this phase - "monopolistic phase capitalism" or something
Who is the "you" here? My grandfather was a mere lad when this term was coined.
- AnimalMuppet 3y agoTerms have a denotation - the defined meaning - and then they have a connotation - what they imply. I'm objecting to the latter. And, we're not at an academic conference that studies such things. We're on HN, where most of the people don't have a precise definition of the term in mind when they read stuff like this. So the misleading connotation matters, at least in this setting.