Capitalists believe it is good for a nation to have a people whose goal in life is to make money.

what is your definitive understanding of capitalism, tankie?

This guy is so far left he literally thinks if you believe in private property you're a capitalist.

Because it's true

I'm a corporatist and a distributist.

So?

@Advocatus Diaboli define capitalism

i'll humor you

considering you believe that a pogrom is anti jewish violence

i dont see your definitions as being wholly correct

Capitalism is an economic system with private property of the means of production where wage labour is used to produce goods and services

define private property then because no system today has total private property

using your definition only anarcho-capitalism abides

your understanding of capitalism is a system that has any private property at all

which is completely untrue

and has never been treated as such by anyone except for marx and his followers.

Private property is a right of individual to manage things he owns in a way he considers the most beneficial

@Advocatus Diaboli ok, so then by your definition of capitalism there is no system in the world that is capitalistic. Because every system has **some** public ownership

again, if your definition of capitalism is that there just **is** private ownership at all, then I do not accept your definition and think it is ludicrous

Please put in mind that personal property =/= private property

Lol wtf

@Advocatus Diaboli and there is public property in every system too, if you want me to abide by your differentiation

natural monopolies, for instance

national railways

fucking streetlights

and roads

sewage systems

Teddy Roosevelt will always be one of my favorite presidents

If there's a single corporation, no matter how small it is, and it's not run by the state nor it's a cooperative, then it's capitalism

Because the only purpose of private property is making profit

What do you mean by private property

@Advocatus Diaboli like I said, that is not capitalism

What is the purpose of profit though?

that's an absolutist take i've never heard of

that is your view of capitalism

it's a very uneducated and broad view

What is capitalism then?

Is it profit to fund something, or profit because you just want to be rich?

@Advocatus Diaboli answer me

What is private property to you

Capitalism exists on a spectrum.