>>211537780I've provided sources. You're free to give logical reasons as to why you think they're wrong. But I already know you're wrong because I'm merely relaying the opinions of contemporary academics.
>>211537267Capitalism is a real ideology, but it's subversive because it pretty much created the world we've lived in for hundreds of years and whose fundamental pillars ARE how we see the world, same as communism.
There are things from both ideologies we take for granted as 'how the world is' without question.
For instance in the case of communism, the very distinction between the rich and poor being two separate entities in dialectic 'conflict' (marxism) is actually not an inherently fundamental distinction, and yet if someone today tried to talk politics pretending the rich and poor were not distinctively independent features of society people would say they were stupid, even if they were right.
Listen to this whole talk by George Monbiot:
>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Z5yRqv4RzA>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VQ4_y3rkX5Q>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v5ry7IbHPeQ>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=24jU_OlYbbkA lot of the features of capitalism we take for granted as inherent truths, even if they are not. They merely describe how we have decided to leverage the resources around us.
Capitalism is a policy whereby LAND, LABOUR, and MONEY are COMMODIFIED (stripped of their social, cultural, and historical meanings) such that each of those resources are utilized strictly for the purpose of making money.
Every time you get a loan from someone that isn't your feudal lord, and the money isn't tied to some political agenda you're engaging in capitalism.
Every time you rent or buy a piece of land and its usage isn't privy to the dictate of the ancestral owner of that land, you're engaging in capitalism.
Every time you work for someone whose clan you don't belong to, or hire someone who isn't part of your clan or ethnic heritage, you're engaging in capitalism.