Comments on Mutualist Blog: Free Market Anti-Capitalism: Socialist Definitional Free-for-All: Part I

Well, thank YOU Paul. But, as Atrios said recentl...

2005-12-09T17:02:00.000-08:00

Well, thank YOU Paul. But, as Atrios said recently, writing long think pieces isn't the way to drive up blog traffic. So there goes my BlogAds revenue.

I confess I got it second-hand, from an exchange b...

2005-12-08T18:09:00.000-08:00

I confess I got it second-hand, from an exchange between SEK3 and Kenneth Gregg on the LeftLibertarian list. According to them, the term "capitalism" in reference to a social system was coined by Thomas Hodgskin, although "capitalist" in reference to an individual goes back to the 18th century.

Kevin,it's going to take a while for me to catch u...

2005-12-08T18:06:00.000-08:00

Kevin,

it's going to take a while for me to catch up on your blog posts due to my vacation, but I just wanted to mention that you've expended quite a bit of effort in this post and the next, and I appreciate it.

I'd be interested in such source info too.I knew i...

2005-12-08T14:40:00.000-08:00

I'd be interested in such source info too.

I knew it was coined by anti-capitalists, although I thought it came from more Marxist circles. Then again, wasn't Ricardo one of the first to use the term?

The term "capitalism" was originally coined by fre...

2005-12-08T14:36:00.000-08:00

The term "capitalism" was originally coined by free market anti-capitalists like myself to describe, not a free market, but a system of class rule in which capitalists control the state and intervene in the market to enforce special privileges for capital.

What sources, preferably geared toward short attention spans and few syllables, can you cite for that?

I believe you. It's just that I foresee often having occasion to clobber people with that info.