On Sat, Nov 29, 2008 at 6:18 PM, Carrol Cox
<cbcox@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
ravi wrote:
>
> >
> IMHO, I think there is a small but significant difference between
> capitalism and meritocracy
This isn't really intelligible. It is like saying there is a small but
significant difference between epidermal cells and a rabbit.
Nominally, one could have a meritocracy within _any_ social system or
mode of production: a neolithic village, an Assyrian Palace economy, a
Viking raiding culture, competitive capitalism of the 19th century, etc
etc etc. I don't think one could exist in a developed communist social
order, but that is another quetion.
So there is no possible intelligible content to _either_ of the
following sentences:
a) There is a difference between capitalism and meritocracy.
b) There is no difference between capitalism and meritocracy.
Capitalism is a social order, as a rabbit is an organism; mieritocracy
is (possible) an aspect of this or that social order as epidermal cells
are an aspect of this or that organism.
What in the hell are you trying to say, ravi?
Carrol
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