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Your definition of capitalism is incomplete. You’ve described the essence of capitalism - as you see it - and people not adhering to your choice subset don’t ‘have a very good definition of "capitalism"‘

You’ve made a no true scotsman argument because all these other capitalist systems with their wage labour grievances and their accelerating inequalities tearing at the coherence of societies’ fabric are not _really_ what’s at the core of capitalism and if they just did it better then it’d be awesome.

The scale part comes in because what you describe - capitalism without wage labour - exists all over the world today, but only in the small. You cannot grow it to a country sized system.



> and people not adhering to your choice subset don’t ‘

Other people aren't bothering to define it at all. I could work with their definitions, if they ever bothered to speak them. Hell, if they ever bothered to even hint at what those might be.

This isn't about a difference in definition, but the other side not defining it at all. And all the waffling here, by you and others, suggests that this might not just be some oversight, but the same sort of strategic fallaciousness the left is infamous for.

The rest of your comment is as incoherent as the first. I'm not sure what "no true scotsman" argument you think I'm making. My definition applies, in varying, to most nations in western civilization. But most especially to those the leftists are most critical of. Take your pick.




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