Who are you, Cathy Newman? Of course I didn't say that. I am saying that war use to be the way a nation would get the resources of another. Trade is the peaceful option.
What about "Trade Wars", that is a sort of war, where goods and services get bombarded by taxation and quotas left and right. Luckily goods and services can not suffer themselves.
If we use labor theory of value we can divide between the capital that is a product of previous labor and that which is not, but that would also be another name for what we refer to as capital.
Even in a society where production was done with machines exclusively and we shared access, no private owners, the machines and their products would be capital, there is no non-capital option.
I noted earlier in the thread that that there is capital, including social capital, it is how that is used that is different, unless you use modifiers in front of it like "constant capital".
But as always, innocent until proven guilty beyond any reasonable doubt. This is the first time since the 2001 anthrax that I can remember international news on domestic terrorism in the mail.
Wait, are you saying the Saudi monarchy is capitalism? Do you just blame all evil on capitalism without thinking?
Everything is the fault of capitalism if you believe that things that are not capitalism but is bad is bad because capitalism have made the conditions of the world how they are now.
Wait, are you saying the Saudi monarchy is capitalism? Do you just blame all evil on capitalism without thinking?
Islam/Sharia is arguably anti-capitalist as it forbids taking large risks, interest and various markets that are sinful, which is why crypto like Stellar got Sharia Certification.
https://www.yours.org/content/ask-a-starving-venezuelan-whatever-you-want--e57f8ab9b8f5#comment-adfc1bca0d0e Great article and comments.
Thanks for the heads up, registrations is closed on yours.org for the time being, but looking forward to being able to participate there. Venezuela is a good case for crypto.
That is a good point SilentSam, it is even possible to create a worker co-op where the workers are the owners of the capital and make the decision in unison.
But Capitalism without a descriptor is usually mean to be private property rights with minimal state intervention, but there still being a state, unless it is something like anarcho-capitalism.
So the state controlling the capital could be called state capitalism, both private and public or co-opt or anything else operates with capital, it is the way that it is done that is different.
And I will also concede that Capitalism (without describing which form of capitalism) does not say much, as capital is the name for the resources that can be used in various ways.
So there may not even be free will for example, that is a legitimate philosophical debate, but we use the word to describe the lack of coercion and force, free choice is not being forced by gun.
Economic freedom degree may be a better description (https://www.heritage.org/index/ranking), the best we can do is rank from most to least as everything needs to be compared to get a ranking.
There are varying degrees of economic freedom which can be divided into various categories with criteria that is evaluated using some methodology that is disclosed. That is the best we can do.