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Personally, I've come to realize that capitalism, communism, socialism are simply semantic pits that don't really mean anything. If you say these words to peopl
by yesco 2y ago
Personally, I've come to realize that capitalism, communism, socialism are simply semantic pits that don't really mean anything. If you say these words to people they have wildly different interpretations of their definitions and the arguments that arise from this discord are usually both heated and pointless.
Words are meant to communicate things, if they aren't communicating your intent then why even bother using them? While they still have some vague relevance from a historical perspective, like when discussing the cold war, I think any contemporary discussion where one feels the use of these words might be necessary would be better off just listing their ideals directly instead of falling into this semantic trap.
- geye1234 2y agoAgree, these terms are bordering on meaningless. I think they suffer from reification, or something like it. What's worse is that people will assign a meaning to those terms, not bother to tell anyone that meaning, and yet use the term in discourse with others who they know don't assign the same meaning. It's infuriating. What everybody really thinks is "people should be free to do good or trivially bad things, and shouldn't be free to do materially bad things".