Capitalism is allowing the winners of the markets to make the rules that everyone has to abide by, sidestepping "democracy" with anti-democratic "lobbyism" and creating a power hierarchy based on networth. The markets that allowed this are usually "free'ish" at best.
TFA means Capitalism in terms of "capitalism as it is today, particularly in the US". There are plenty of other ways of figuring out how to distribute resources.
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The article is a piece of revolutionary rant.
Wrong. Even plants have a conspicuous signaling economy to get their way to selection.
Signalling = markets.
Capitalism is allowing the winners of the markets to make the rules that everyone has to abide by, sidestepping "democracy" with anti-democratic "lobbyism" and creating a power hierarchy based on networth. The markets that allowed this are usually "free'ish" at best.
TFA means Capitalism in terms of "capitalism as it is today, particularly in the US". There are plenty of other ways of figuring out how to distribute resources.
Economy/Markets != Capitalism
There's a really insightful book on this topic (by pretty much the name you suggested):
https://www.minorcompositions.info/wp-content/uploads/2011/1...