PoalackJokes88 on Nostr: These big -ism words always have multiple definitions depending on who is using them ...

These big -ism words always have multiple definitions depending on who is using them and why. For Marx and most leftoids today, Capitalism meant laissez-faire free market individualism when neutrally describing it, then crony corporatism bribing the government to oppress the poor when bashing it. For libertarians and the doctrinaire rightoids, the former part stays the same but the latter part is a mix of "no-true-scotsman" and "and that's a good thing!"

If you're going to talk about this kind of stuff, you either have to define what you mean or take the good with the bad. If what the USA has today is Capitalism, then it sucks for everyone except the top 10% in wealth. But if it's not Capitalism because it's not the Free Market, then Capitalism is an ideal that has basically never been reached and likely cannot ever be outside of maybe medieval Iceland.

Nat. Soc. Germany was led by philosophers who cut to the heart like no one else. If the citizens can be called on to defend the State, then the State has an obligation to the welfare of its' citizens. Corporations which receive benefits from the State also have an obligation, and no one can be allowed to profit personally at the expense of everyone else. That's basically it, the rest is just a flexible application of it.