What is capitalism?

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2 responses to “What is capitalism?”

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   May 29, 2012

   Lindsay

   Hi!

   My answer for “other” might not have been as clear as it could’ve been, since your poll has a character limit.

   Capitalism is a lot of things, but one of the things it does that bothers me the most is it turns moral and ethical questions into economic ones. It puts a dollar value on everything, including human and animal life, and the health and functioning of ecosystems, and thus makes it possible for corporations and governments to justify destroying those things if the price is right.

   (Derrick Jensen, a thinker I really like, says something about capitalism being a way of changing a living planet into dead commodities).

   And few people tell them they’ve done something wrong; people seem to think that capitalism is natural and that there is no other way to do things.

   Nice poll.

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   October 21, 2013

   n8chz

   It seems “view results” does not reveal the fill-in answers provided for “other,” which are made available to me. Here are the ones received so far:

   		an economic system in which all members seek accumulation of monetary capital. Add as a poll answer	Saturday, Oct 19th 4:07AM
   		statist bullshit Add as a poll answer	Wednesday, Jun 12th 9:04AM
   		system where profit is the only goal Add as a poll answer	Thursday, Apr 4th 8:57AM
   		wealth extraction Add as a poll answer	Friday, Jan 4th 2:25PM
   		The wage system Add as a poll answer	Sunday, Nov 4th 9:35PM
   		wage labor Add as a poll answer	Friday, Jun 1st 8:10AM
   		something that reduces living people, animals and ecosystems to a dollar amount Add as a poll answer	Monday, May 28th 9:42PM
   		how Marx defined it over a century ago Add as a poll answer	Saturday, May 26th 9:32PM
   		An unfree market in which state guarantees profit Add as a poll answer	Wednesday, May 9th 11:01PM
   		fake Add as a poll answer	Wednesday, May 9th 8:54AM

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