Questions tagged [capitalism]
Question related to an economic and political system in which a country's trade and industry are controlled by private owners for profit, rather than by the state.
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Do chemical-biological problems benefit capitalism?
Mark Fisher, in his book Capitalist Realism, writes:
The current ruling ontology denies any possibility of a social causation of mental illness. The chemico-biologization of mental illness is of ...
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How could the influence of lobbies be nullified in a capitalist society?
One of the defects of current capitalism is that it causes the concentration of power in a few actors who, at some point, decide to influence the politics of countries and organizations seeking their ...
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Why do we witness a return to strong traditional gender norms in Western societies today? [closed]
Why do we witness a return to strong traditional gender norms in Western societies today?
Indeed, for women, it is translated in the interest for the figure of the witch. See the representative (best-...
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Why free-market capitalism has become more associated to the right than to the left, to which it originally belonged?
If I am not mistaken, classical liberalism, among which economic liberalism (laissez-faire), was at the beginning supported by the left (Benjamin Constant 1767-1830, Alexis de Tocqueville 1805-1859, ...
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In Marxist view: does liberal democracy increase alienation of workers?
In Economic and Philosophical Manuscripts of 1844 Marx writes:
First, that the work is external to the worker, that it is not part of
his nature; and that, consequently, he does not fulfill himself ...
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"Communism in the Soviet Union, China, etc., wasn't real communism" - is that true? [closed]
To my knowledge, communism is a classless society in which everyone contributes and receives according to their ability and needs.
When people bring up the Soviet Union or China as examples where ...
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Are there research estimates of Capitalistic terror? [closed]
In this answer there is an estimation of communist terror in different countries. And there is a huge amount of work and estimation related to this. Looks like that this work is actively sponsored by ...
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How can the government improve employment in a capitalistic society? [closed]
When unemployment rates are rising, the blame is often put on the government, and it is said that "if the government were more competent, we'd be employed". I'm trying to understand this ...
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Is Immanuel Wallerstein's theory on capitalism and cognitive dissonance empirically verifiable?
In the past I have heard people assert that racism is caused by capitalism, and this has never really made sense to me.
However, this answer references a theory by Immanuel Wallerstein that explains ...
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Is Corporatocracy a result of Corporatism?
The way I understand it so far (and I could be wrong so fact-checking appreciated): capitalism can lead to corporatism, which can lead to corporatocracy? The nuances are tricky and have lots of ...
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What are the similarities and differences between Amazon's business model and China's approach to managing its tech businesses?
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CNN's Jamie Dimon says he regrets joking about the Chinese Communist Party says of JPMorgan (JPM) CEO Jamie Dimon:
At one point, Dimon compared the political and economic approaches in ...
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Are modern state governments just a group that administers the businesses of the bourgeoisie? [closed]
I recently read the Communist Manifiesto and in the very fist chapter the authors claim that
The executive of the modern state is but a committee for managing the common affairs of the whole ...
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Why do some (North Americans) consider Europe socialist?
Recently I see more and more posts on social media (mainly FB) in which people advocate socialism (and sometimes communism) or are anti capitalist.
When mentioning examples (after being asked or when ...
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Confused about the term 'Bourgeoisie'!
Bourgeoisie is defined by,
the middle class, typically with reference to its perceived materialistic values or conventional attitudes
As refer to Google define,
Here, I see it actually means the ...
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Are the differences between capitalism's and socialism's analysis of resource distribution fairness fundamental?
I have always understood a (broadly speaking) capitalist, free market approach to economics to rest on the notion that a resource distribution is fair in light of how closely it correlates the ...
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