Message from @yung

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2018-04-17 22:27:56 UTC  

@DA GOMMIE JOO#7269 Ehh, it is more of an economic model when you think about it.

2018-04-17 22:28:38 UTC  

fair point but this guy's arguing that it's when people can make choices

2018-04-17 22:28:56 UTC  

and that profit motive has nothing to do with capitalism

2018-04-17 22:28:56 UTC  

*What?*

2018-04-17 22:29:10 UTC  

I'll post the thread in a second

2018-04-17 22:29:21 UTC  

Throw a dictionary at his head, because he clearly dosen't get it.

2018-04-17 22:30:11 UTC  

actually conflicted as to capitalism being an ideology

2018-04-17 22:30:30 UTC  

it’s not really an ideology, but some people treat it as it was

2018-04-17 22:30:54 UTC  

When in actuality, it isn't an ideology.

2018-04-17 22:30:57 UTC  

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/308995540782284817/435930194830819328/unknown.png

2018-04-17 22:31:15 UTC  

if capitalism isn't an ideology then what the hell is it

2018-04-17 22:31:16 UTC  

I don’t know. It’s like saying Socialism isn’t an ideology

2018-04-17 22:31:50 UTC  

I mean it has theory and praxis
you can read capitalist theory
you can build a country on capitalist theory

2018-04-17 22:31:57 UTC  

@yung But socialism isn't only an economic theory.

2018-04-17 22:31:59 UTC  

and it has philosophy

2018-04-17 22:32:07 UTC  

Socialism is an economic theory

2018-04-17 22:32:23 UTC  

Communism is more of an ideology

2018-04-17 22:32:26 UTC  

@DA GOMMIE JOO#7269 In that case, your country would essentially be a giant company.

2018-04-17 22:32:34 UTC  

@yung No?

2018-04-17 22:32:58 UTC  

pretty much just ancap

2018-04-17 22:33:09 UTC  

I think you’re technically right, but let’s say Capitalism has a lot of ideological weight and baggage to it

2018-04-17 22:33:14 UTC  

we see more of a socdem society in the USA

2018-04-17 22:33:15 UTC  

@DA GOMMIE JOO#7269 And we all know that a state like that is impossible.....

2018-04-17 22:33:27 UTC  

I mean it happened in the belgian congo

2018-04-17 22:33:49 UTC  

@yung Not really, it for sure is more subversive than that of socialism and more dominant, but it has little in the form of ideology.

2018-04-17 22:34:50 UTC  

Mhmm maybe you’re right. But what I’m trying to say that the fact people think and argue for and against it in a very ideological way makes it somehow ideology

2018-04-17 22:35:24 UTC  

Not really, they clam it is an ideology, when in reality, it has extremely little to back it as an ideology.

2018-04-17 22:35:27 UTC  

it’s not a sound argument I get it. But Socialism and Communism both are economic models and ideology.

2018-04-17 22:35:37 UTC  

for instance

2018-04-17 22:35:59 UTC  

Maybe saying “neoliberalism” is a better way to suit that ideology

2018-04-17 22:36:23 UTC  

Yet the argument for neoliberalism is the capitalist model itself.

2018-04-17 22:36:33 UTC  

Wouldn’t you somehow agree?

2018-04-17 22:36:56 UTC  

Nope, because neoliberalism is an ideology that primarily uses capitalism.

2018-04-17 22:37:10 UTC  

That goes for 99% of liberals and conservatives.

2018-04-17 22:38:11 UTC  

I don’t get that but I think I get your point

2018-04-17 22:38:27 UTC  

generally

2018-04-17 22:38:58 UTC  

but then Socialism would be an ideology, and say democratic centralism just a model

2018-04-17 22:39:37 UTC  

Democratic centralism? Never heard that one before.

Yes, socialism would be an ideology.

2018-04-17 22:40:30 UTC  

Democratic Centralism is the model of the Soviet Union, or at least how it was supposed to happen

2018-04-17 22:41:29 UTC  

"How it was supposed to happen"

2018-04-17 22:41:54 UTC  

Yhea, let's be serious for a moment, the soviet union was neither democratic, nor was it centralist.