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It seems we live with a lexicon of either if something isn't communist or socialist, which seems to be well defined, then it has to be capitalist. Which somehow doesn't seem to be well defined.

I was just scrolling through reddit and saw a post "We live in a capitalist society therefore blah blah". We DO NOT live in a capitalist society. This is annoying me beyond fuck to keep hearing / reading. However since we don't live in an outright socialist / communist economy, and since there is no other type of economy termed other than capitalist, it's harder to argue because 'normal' minds need a simple word to settle on.

It seems we live with a lexicon of either if something isn't communist or socialist, which seems to be well defined, then it has to be capitalist. Which somehow doesn't seem to be well defined. I was just scrolling through reddit and saw a post "We live in a capitalist society therefore blah blah". We DO NOT live in a capitalist society. This is annoying me beyond fuck to keep hearing / reading. However since we don't live in an outright socialist / communist economy, and since there is no other type of economy termed other than capitalist, it's harder to argue because 'normal' minds need a simple word to settle on.

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All I really know is communism and capitalism, with most countries being somewhere in between.

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I fail to see any difference between communism and any other political system: there are a few elites and the rest. Economic systems consist mainly of tokens (derivatives) representing labor or work. Governments pretty much all subscribe to Keynesian economics or theft. Essentially, they try to persuade the masses that stealing our wealth is good. It's similar to the Broken Window fallacy. Governments are great at breaking things and later paying (money laundering) the chosen ones to repair the damage.