• Prunebutt@feddit.de
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    This interpretation is not about following the definitions of a word to the teet, but rather to understand how systems of control work.

    If you have the same property relations of the means of production like in capitalism, but you switch out the boss with a state bureaucrat, you functionally have the same system. But not with the private ownership, but rather with the state ownership: state capitalism.

    If you would adjust your definitions of capitalism here, your political understanding would actually grow.

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      The boss being a state bureaucrat as opposed to a business owner is a massive distinction. Government employee’s primary obligation is to their employer: the government, not the business. This dynamic changes things, it’s not the same system.

      Suggesting that we adjust the definitions of words in order to believe your ideology is… an interesting tactic.

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        The boss being a state bureaucrat as opposed to a business owner is a massive distinction. Government employee’s primary obligation is to their employer: the government, not the business. This dynamic changes things, it’s not the same system.

        What’s the functional difference between the CEO of a Corporation and some surpreme ruler of a state?

        Suggesting that we adjust the definitions of words in order to believe your ideology is… an interesting tactic.

        You have it the wrong way around. I simply think definitions should have the purpose of understanding the world better. If a definition doesn’t correlate with the world that we perceive, they’re no use and should be adjusted. That is literally how language works.

        I came to the conclusions of my ideology by thinking about the political definitions I have in my model of the world. If the model/the definitions don’t fit, I change it/them.