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Yet neither side in this can even define what capitalism is and are both absolute brain dumps deattached from reality (materialism)
Farce vs farce
Edit: now that's how you really ruffle some feathers, by calling a school yard fight that takes place within realm of imagination a farce
"Everyone is wrong except me"
Yeah you're right, I should have picked a sports team and brainlessly attacked the other in this youtube beef where each side is yelling "noo actually my ideology is better than yours!"
I can absolutely define what capitalism is at its core
How about defining what it fundamentally is at an economic level instead, given how it is a mode of production
Also the irony of responding to this by saying "yeah I can define it" then proceeding to not define it
It's because I don't bother to engage constructively with people who comment in bad faith.
If you mean "materialism" as defined by Marx, then yes that is an "absolute brain dump deattached from reality" as several modern anarchists and anthropologists have pointed out with ample of evidence.
Curious to see what this evidence is then, since every time this kind of a claim gets dropped there's 0 elaboration or if there is elaboration, it's always some metaphysics brimstone
It's for example explained in length in Graeber's last book The Dawn Of Everything (with plenty of archeological evidence). Worth a read 👍
Capitalism is said to emphasize free markets, private ownership and minimal government interference. The primary factors of production in economics are land, labor and capital. Capital are durable produced goods used as inputs for making more goods. The emphasis under Capitalism is to empower the capital component of the primary factors of production.
There is more to say anout Capitalism using terms familiar to those living under Capitalism. I find it disingenuous that your "ruffling of feathers" can only define Capitalism using Marxist Leninist terms like dialectical materialism. Again, it is a case of "just read our ML bible and you will get it brah". Cults are everywhere.
A major point of the video essay is that centralizing land, labor and capital under the state is a change of private ownership thereby reproducing Capitalism, but at the state level. All must labor using state land and capital except for the political class which holds power over labor. I call ML's RedFash and State Capitalist for this reason. Merging the state and capital sounded better when sold in the original German.
I'm not here to defend anarchy. Watch the video essay or don't. I'm here to define Capitalism in all it's flavors including the state kind.
Funnily enough, in this definition both ML's and Anarchists fall into the same trap, and that is ignore commodity production which is the fundamental atom of capitalism. You can centralize or decentralize production all you want, give ownership to the workers or the state - this doesn't matter as long as commodity production (production for exchange) and everything that it implies remains.
After all, capitalism IS generalized commodity production, it's what automatically implies markets, production for profit, money, etc...
Also don't confuse Marxism with Marxism-Leninism, as the latter is merely a "synthesis" created by Stalin that falsified both Marx and Lenin to suit the nationalist counter-revolutionary USSR direction of development. Both Marx & Engels opposed "Socialism in one state", fought against the idea that "commodity production is socialism actually" or the stageism that is anti-materialist