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To: PGR88
Why use the word “Capitalism?” It was invented by Marx.”

Actually the word 'capitalist' predates Marx by a half-century or so.

15 posted on 07/19/2009 8:54:37 AM PDT by newheart (Obama. We kind of underestimated the creepiness.)
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To: newheart

It seems that the term capitalist originated during the French revolution. I don’t know when the term “capitalism” came about. Marxists certainly use the term frequently.


36 posted on 07/19/2009 1:12:19 PM PDT by ChessExpert (The unemployment rate was 4.5% when Democrats took control of Congress. What is it today?)
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To: newheart
"Actually the word 'capitalist' predates Marx by a half-century or so."

No, not in the sense in which he uses it.

45 posted on 07/19/2009 3:31:36 PM PDT by editor-surveyor (The beginning of the O'Bummer administration looks a lot like the end of the Nixon administration)
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