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<span style="font-kerning: none" class="">We are told that Karl Marx denied being a Marxist.</span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none" class="">Some have reminded us that his big book is about Capital, not Capitalism, & he says nothing whatever about the ideology of capitalism as such. </span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none" class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"></span>Political sociologist Dennis Wrong claims that Marx never used the term ”capitalism” in “Capital.” (Nor, by the way, did Adam Smith in
<i class="">The Wealth</i> <i class="">of Nations (</i>1776)<i class="">.</i>) The term didn’t come into widespread use until the 20th century. </span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none" class="">> Dennis Wrong, “Disaggregating the Idea of Capitalism,” in Mike Featherstone, ed.,
<i class="">Cultural Theory and Cultural Change</i> (SAGE Publications, 1992, pp.147-157). < </span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none" class="">I will send $50 to the first person who can prove to me (with appropriate documentation & accurate citation) that Wrong is wrong. </span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none" class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"></span>~~ Ron</span></div>
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