>>2241549>Marx doesnt own the rights to the term capitalism.your appeal to Marx's lack of intellectual property over the term Capitalism is a bafflingly stupid response in the context of this conservation. You come to a Marxist board full of Marxists who study Marx and use the term Capitalism as Marx used it, and then complain that we don't use the term Capitalism as only you use it. In fact even most contemporary bourgeois economists usually Capitalism to describe industrial and post-industrial society even if they ignore the class relations. "Capitalism is when Capital and Labor exist and is the only mode of production" is a highly unorthodox definition of that term since it strips the term of its entire historical context: It was used to describe what society was actively becoming as feudal relations broke down.
>He should have called this ism as wageism or some more relevant term, since the use of capital seems to be universal in all societies and ages.OK so you're just being a pedant. Are you going to complain that the hoops/nets on a "basketball" court isn't an actual basket? Shooting stars aren't stars, but meteoroids burning up in the atmosphere. Digital movies are still called "films" despite not being shot on film reels. A computer mouse has neither fur nor whiskers. A hot dog is not a canine and may actually be served cold. The sun neither rises nor sets, Earth instead rotates, only giving the appearance of a "sunrise" or "sunset." A horse doesn't actually produce one horsepower of energy. This is the essence of your complaint.
Read chapter 31 of Capital if you are too lazy to read the whole book. This is how Marxists use the term Capitalism and if that still bothers you look into Wittgenstein's concept of Language Games:
In his later work, particularly Philosophical Investigations, Ludwig Wittgenstein argued that the meaning of a word is its use in the language. Words don’t have fixed, essential meanings; instead, they gain meaning from how they're used in specific social contexts, what he called language games. A language game is any context in which words are used with shared understanding, like giving orders, telling jokes, asking for directions, etc. Semantic pedantry is when someone insists that a word or phrase must adhere strictly to its origi
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