Capitalism and Co-Operism

I want to be clear about the fact that when I'm referring to capital, I am referring to the investment equity in which people kind of invest in an enterprise and hold an equitable stake. Why? Because that, I think, is the fundamental difference between a capitalist enterprise and a co-operist enterprise where there is no investor who's seeking a return on their investment. So what I try to do in the book is really point out that those terms themselves, I believe, are misleading. Capitalism is misleading. Communism or communalism is somewhat misleading. Both of those represent forms of strongly state derigist regimes that both of those would be opposed to something like co-operation.

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