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Capitalism (n.) is ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠a dystopian socialist fantasy, in exactly the same but reversed way that communism was for marx a capitalist fantasy.

Capitalism (n.) is ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠an ethico-religious phenomenon which reflects taoism today just as early capitalism was protestant.

Capitalism (n.) is ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠the 'crippling contradiction, discord, by an immanent want of balance', and is therefore engaged in a 'permanent revolutionizing of its own conditions of existence.

Capitalism (n.) is ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠the background for how we relate to objects today, populism and democracy included.

Capitalism (n.) is ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠today the unavoidable totality of our situation, the 'untranscendable horizon' of all particular instances. So pervasive is it that we can easily imagine the extinction of the human race, but it seems impossible to imagine a radical change of the social system even if life on earth disappears, capitalism will somehow remain intact.