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In reply to the discussion: New Leader Of UK's Green Party: Nuclear Power Is The Betamax Of The Energy World [View all]Confusious
(8,317 posts)58. The exchange of printed money doesn't make capitalism
"Kind of like modern humans haven't always existed. But you seem to say they have."
No, I don't seem to say that at all.
"You're calling chimpanzees human"
Nope, I have never ever in my whole life called chimpanzees human.
No, I don't seem to say that at all.
"You're calling chimpanzees human"
Nope, I have never ever in my whole life called chimpanzees human.
Again, it's called an analogy.
From the perspective of the German Historical School, capitalism is primarily identified in terms of the organization of production for markets. Although this perspective shares similar theoretical roots with that of Weber, its emphasis on markets and money lends it different focus.[34] For followers of the German Historical School, the key shift from traditional modes of economic activity to capitalism involved the shift from medieval restrictions on credit and money to the modern monetary economy combined with an emphasis on the profit motive.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capitalism#Free-market_capitalism
In social science, the understanding of the defining characteristics of capitalism has been strongly influenced by German sociologist Max Weber. Weber considered market exchange, a voluntary supply of labor and a planned division of labor within the entreprises as defining features of capitalism
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capitalism#Free-market_capitalism
Division of labour is the specialization of cooperative labour in specific, circumscribed tasks and like roles. Historically an increasingly complex division of labour is closely associated with the growth of total output and trade, the rise of capitalism, and of the complexity of industrialisation processes.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Division_of_labour
Of course:
Division of labour was also a method used by the Sumerians to categorise different jobs, and divide them to skilled members of a society.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Division_of_labour
But it wasn't capitalism.
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New Leader Of UK's Green Party: Nuclear Power Is The Betamax Of The Energy World [View all]
Turborama
Sep 2012
OP
An example of a technology that has been relegated to being a historical artifact
Turborama
Sep 2012
#8
Right, so essentially: "I throw ad hominem attacks at writers who's work I don't read"
Turborama
Oct 2012
#16
LOL! So, if 3 people agree with Donald Trump that makes him correct about the President's BC?
Turborama
Oct 2012
#46
I thought the same thing when I read it -- superior performance undercut by cheaper and crappier
Brickbat
Oct 2012
#17
K&R But that was a very bad analogy. The leader of a political party really needs to be more
Egalitarian Thug
Sep 2012
#3