Ansiktsburk wrote: ↑Sat Mar 26, 2022 10:03 am
Capitalism is a part of those mixes but noy the only part. Then of course thats noones Utopia. Certainly not mine. But like good enough.
Well, that's quite reasonable.
One of the great things about capitalism is it's not a utopian system. It has no "ideal" toward which it compels things. It's part of a provisional arrangement to get by in the best way we can, given the serious imperfections in the world and in human nature. It's a kind of trade-off or pragmatic arrangement, rather than an idealistic scheme.
And that's why it can operate successfully in the real world, whereas Socialism never has been able to at all. It does not do the things Socialism does, like demanding perfection, extinguishing all competitors, propagandizing, or having to pretend that human nature is trustworthy or perfectable when it's not. It assumes that things are flawed, and deals with that fact in a provisional way. And unlike idealistic, utopian schemes like Socialism, it's adaptable and possible to hybridize, according to how things go in the real world.
So it can be, as you say, "part" of a solution, without demanding it be made the total solution. It does not require the elimination of all other strategies and alternatives, but can live with them, and be modified by them.