capitalism has gotten so evil and indefensible that its supporters have fallen to the level of denying that it as a system even exists and so no criticism against it is valid at all
Important insight into the liberal mind. They literally believe that Capitalism is just what you get when there's no rules at all (ie. True Freedom™) and Communism is when there's rules and government and shit.
Even aside from the capitalism nonsense, wtf is going on in this guy's head?
So you can't be against the absence of for example justice, because that's the exact same as saying you're against freezing temperatures or darkness, since they're all the absence of something?
Technically true. The government always subsidized profit making ventures, whether by protecting merchant ships with a navy, or building roads, bridges, and canals.
Unfortunately the idea that capitalism is made-up isn't new. It's something libertarians say. To them, socialists made up capitalism to couch their own political ideology. If the modern world is based on human nature, if economic laws are eternal and automatic, then there is no "ism", it's just what must happen, and therefore anything else (like socialism) is false and contrived.
I've had a coworker unironically tell me that capitalism doesn't exist in the US because government meddling prevents true capitalism from doing its thing.
This guy's right, rather than naming something and talking about it we should call every present ruling ideology "the current system" and all past ruling ideologies ""the current system"". That makes much more sense.
I am quite certain that the vacuum of space is thoroughly permeated by various fields and filled with unfathomable numbers of short lived virtual particles. I am pretty sure it has been experimentally shown that the vacuum can exert a force, entirely on its own? It is for these reasons that I am against the vacuum of space!
The thing is, he's sort of right. Capitalism was defined by its detractors describing what was around them. You can absolutely be against the current order of things, whether you describe it under a term "capitalism" or not.
Yes, capitalism existed for a few centuries before it was actually defined (with the word, e.g. Adam Smith doesn't mention Capitalism). I am not disputing that.
i mean it's true insofar as the most incisive theorists of capitalism were and are its critics. For its proponents, it works best when it is unperceivable.