Let's begin with capitalism, a word that has gone largely out of fashion. The approved reference now is to the market system. This shift minimizes - indeed, deletes - the role of wealth in the economic and social system. And it sheds the adverse connotation going back to Marx. Instead of the owners of capital or their attendants in control, we have the admirably impersonal role of market forces. It would be hard to think of a change in terminology more in the interest of those to whom money accords power. They have now a functional anonymity.
About this quote
- What does it mean?
- Renaming capitalism to market system hides wealth concentration.
- In plain terms
- Calling it market system instead of capitalism hides wealth power.
- What can you take from it?
- Recognize how language masks economic power structures.
Where it applies
Putting it to work
Questions to consider
- Why use the term market system?
- Who benefits from vague language?
Another view
Market systems are not inherently neutral.
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