Explaining Capitalism

Allan Milne Lees
7 min readSep 20, 2019
Capitalism Is Not What You Think It Is

There’s an unfortunate human tendency to use words we don’t actually understand, which leads us into believing things that aren’t actually true, which leads us to form ideas about people and policy that aren’t actually helpful in any way.

Let’s take a look at the word Liberal.

In the USA this word is thrown around by right-wing folk and means nothing more than “people with ideas I neither understand…

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Allan Milne Lees

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