Deep@mander.xyz to politics @lemmy.world · 9 days agoAmericans — including many Republicans — are losing faith in capitalism, polling showslite.cnn.comexternal-linkmessage-square76linkfedilinkarrow-up1370arrow-down15
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minus-squareTheDemonBuer@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up13arrow-down1·8 days ago Anyone who thinks that the US is a shining example of “capitalism” is a fucking imbecile. If the US economic system isn’t capitalism, what is it? Can you give an example of a currently existing national economy that is capitalism?
minus-squareTheCriticalMember@aussie.zonelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·8 days agoI don’t think it’s the capitalism part they were disputing, it was the shining example part.
minus-squareTheDemonBuer@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up3·8 days agoSo the US economy is capitalism, just a flawed version of it? If so, what would a “shining example” of capitalism be?
minus-squareTheCriticalMember@aussie.zonelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·8 days agoI wasn’t the one making the statement, just offering an interpretation. I think a good case could be made that the US IS a shining example of mature capitalism.
If the US economic system isn’t capitalism, what is it? Can you give an example of a currently existing national economy that is capitalism?
I don’t think it’s the capitalism part they were disputing, it was the shining example part.
So the US economy is capitalism, just a flawed version of it? If so, what would a “shining example” of capitalism be?
I wasn’t the one making the statement, just offering an interpretation. I think a good case could be made that the US IS a shining example of mature capitalism.