Timeline for Why do few/no countries claim capitalism as their ideology?
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| Mar 31, 2018 at 20:53 | comment | added | 0xC0000022L | @PhilipKlöcking thanks for making my point. I could not have made it better. | |
| Mar 30, 2018 at 17:54 | comment | added | Erwan Legrand | And the political (and economical) ideology on which the institutions of the U.S.A. are founded is known as (classical) liberalism. | |
| Mar 30, 2018 at 17:52 | comment | added | Erwan Legrand | Like others, you are making a confusion between capitalism (the private ownership of the means of production) and economic liberalism (A.K.A laissez-faire)! | |
| Mar 28, 2018 at 14:41 | comment | added | Todd Wilcox | This may sound silly but anyone who has closely studied political speeches will know, poetry matters. "The United States of America" is much more poetic in the sense of meter and rhythm than "The Federal Republic of America" or "The American Federal Republic", etc. Was it chosen partly for that reason in 1787? Actually, I bet it was, since Jefferson wrote that in the preamble to the Constitution and I'm confident he chose those words very carefully. | |
| Mar 28, 2018 at 10:44 | comment | added | Philip Klöcking | @Devin: Sure, but this is actually part of the problem as I see it: Especially Americans are great at conflating social and socialist positions into the communist, used as pejorative. That being said, the SED, in fact, officially had a communist program and was dominated by former members of the former communist party KPD (Wiki), notwithstanding that they never actually acted according to political communism (just like in the SU) and clearly followed an autocratic-socialist agenda. | |
| Mar 28, 2018 at 0:38 | comment | added | Devin | @0xC0000022L, I assume he means it was part of the Eastern, Soviet or Communist bloc, as it was known | |
| Mar 28, 2018 at 0:36 | comment | added | Devin | @NajibIdrissi, capitalism is an economic system, just like other people said. That's why there are many different POLITICAL ideologies that adhere to capitalism, see en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Ideologies_of_capitalism (and believe me the list doesn't mention all ideologies). Also, socialism is an economic and social system, unlike capitalism that is only economic | |
| Mar 27, 2018 at 21:14 | comment | added | 0xC0000022L | There was no "communist Germany". If you can't grasp the difference between communism and socialism and between theory and practice you may want to read up on both. The closest to communism envisioned by Marx and Engels was the war communism in Russia in the 1920s. And presumably the inventors would have found that to be quite the corruption of their ideas. Besides, several Western democracies openly call themselves "representative". So false labeling isn't exactly monopolized by only one side or the other. | |
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| Mar 27, 2018 at 16:02 | comment | added | William Perron | @NajibIdrissi The article you link is called "Economic ideologiy", not "Political ideology". There's a key difference there. | |
| Mar 27, 2018 at 15:11 | comment | added | pipe | Whoa there, I would be careful about equating capitalism with a free market. To me, a capitalist system does not necessarily require or lead to a free market. | |
| Mar 27, 2018 at 13:17 | comment | added | Evargalo | Prince Phillip is not God -> citation needed. | |
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| Mar 27, 2018 at 10:23 | comment | added | user17569 | @NajibIdrissi, it's not an ideology per se, but its treated as an ideology. For instance, Prince Phillip is not God, but he is still worshipped. express.co.uk/news/royal/439264/… | |
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| Mar 27, 2018 at 10:14 | comment | added | user5097 | Capitalism is as much an ideology as socialism, and communism is a socialist ideology, just like e.g. "laissez-faire" is a capitalistic ideology. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economic_ideology Your answer is directly contradicted by your sources. Saying "capitalism is not an ideology because it's an economic system" is like saying "monkeys are not animals because they are primates". | |
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| Mar 27, 2018 at 7:51 | history | answered | user17569 | CC BY-SA 3.0 |