Notvacka, just check out there in the outside world and see how capitalism is talked about and used. It is used to describe free market principles as opposed to Marxism and communism, which don't adhere to that idea.Spike, the way you use the word "capitalism" it becomes a catch phrase for almost anything. I don't think you have much grasp of the concept, and since there is no consensus on a precise definition of the word "capitalism" anyway, I suggest that you try to state your case without using that word at all. This is a constructive suggestion, since such limitations force you to actually think about what you want to say before you blurt it out.
Capitalism as I use it is not a catch phrase for everything. For instance, it is not the same as democracy. But capitalism and democracy are two theories that come together to form the liberal democracy in which advanced and developed countries reside in, as Francis Fukuyama referred to them, liberal meaning the free market. And without the free market democracy could not be maintained or sustained. But Fukuyama was aware of people like you who think of capitalism in such a pejorative way. So, as he explained, used the world 'liberal' instead.
It is you detractors of capitalism who have no #@* idea what you are talking about. You, as infants, are using it to describe bad people on Wall St. Capitalism goes far beyond that. It is an entire economic system. And if you were at all that rational you could step outside yourselves and realize that it is what supplies your cushy, tiny lives.
