End Notes.

SOCIAL order; MIXED economy; BASIC income; HISTORY of capitalism

Yet the end of capitalism is doubly ambiguous, for uncertainty about how capitalism might end reflects a deeper uncertainty about what exactly capitalism is. It's sometimes suggested that this uncertainty is not accidental, that abstraction and opacity are central characteristics of the system, which if true would make the common injunction to "smash capitalism" less than self-evident: Is capitalism even the sort of thing that could be smashed, like a vase or a VCR? Foretelling century moves and the briskly End a half of of Capitalism across intellectual a history, from Marx and John Stuart Mill in the mid-19th century (when the term "capitalism" entered the lexicon) to the aftermath of the 2008 crash. Yet his theme, the problem of capitalism's end, mirrors the problem of its emergence - a debate that predates the term "capitalism" itself, going back at least to the 18th century Scottish historians of commercial society. [Extracted from the article]

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