Guys, it’s over.
It is officially the year 2014 and nobody knows what capitalism is. That’s right folks, we might as well drop the ball and admit it. Socialists have no idea because they’re fighting against it, even though Marx was its biggest fan and considered it to be the most revolutionary idea to ever come out of the 20th century.
Capitalists, conservatives, liberals, fascists, everybody is mistaking it for colonialism. Meanwhile, thanks to Lenin’s re-branding of capitalism as the New Economic Policy, it put the Soviet Union on the map and it otherwise collects dust just awaiting to get the same good old college try as Communism had enjoyed.
I suppose it’s difficult to imagine a society in which citizens organize collectives of similar talents and interests in order to bring projects, products and services into reality instead of corporations and wage slave labor.
It’s challenging to conceptualize that prices would be decided according to supply and demand without generating astronomic waste due to demands being met. People would get bigger slices of the proverbial pie and earn a living doing what they loved? Impossible! Nobody would be in the business of manufacturing needs and desires, as if there weren’t enough of those to go around in our imperfect world already. Pipe dreams!
Corporations would be people…real people. You and I, offering products and services not as virtual entities, but as living, breathing sentient talented beings. There would be no elitism and no 1% because anyone would be able to generate wealth. Gone would be the concept of social class because the shocking idea that “there’s more than enough to go around” has always been a reality.
It wasn’t difficult for Adam Smith to conceptualize wealth within one nation. Imagine, a socialist before the word was even properly invented, trying to bring down the biggest empires and the most grotesque of economic systems with the power of thought and writing. A simple idea, the anti-colonialism,
Perhaps it’s time to end the war on definition. Shouldn’t it be about time where popular opinion no longer dictates academic terminology? It’s about damn time that we began to be intellectually honest once again.
Much love,
Zen Politics
“Capitalism: A Clusterf#ck of Semantics” – Published March 2, 2014
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