Spelling Capitalism With A K

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This is a request for information more than anything else... I've seen this done here and on a few other message boards or blogs, and I was wondering: does 'Kapitalism' mean something different to 'capitalism', or is just like spelling 'magic' as 'magick' - ie, a stylistic tick meant to convey a different attitude to the concept in question?

― Flyboy (Flyboy), Tuesday, 24 May 2005 12:51 (twenty-one years ago)

spelling racist with two Ss

― RJG (RJG), Tuesday, 24 May 2005 12:52 (twenty-one years ago)

I blame Carl Marks

― Dadaismus (Dada), Tuesday, 24 May 2005 12:53 (twenty-one years ago)

It implies that "Kapitalism" is evil, since in German the title of Marx's Capital was spelled Das Kapital, I think.

I've read some Maoists spelling America Amerika, or in terminal cases AmeriKKKa (Or the U$A)

― Konstantin Ustinovich Chernenko (Konstantin Ustinovich Chernenk), Tuesday, 24 May 2005 12:54 (twenty-one years ago)

It implies that "Kapitalism" is evil, since in German the title of Marx's Capital was spelled Das Kapital, I think.

Surely this would actually just imply that capitalism was German?

― Flyboy (Flyboy), Tuesday, 24 May 2005 12:55 (twenty-one years ago)

Ice Cube was a Maoist?

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Tuesday, 24 May 2005 12:55 (twenty-one years ago)

http://www.bbc.co.uk/totp2/features/wallpaper/images/800/kenny.jpg

― Dadaismus (Dada), Tuesday, 24 May 2005 12:57 (twenty-one years ago)

Yeah, and germans are nazis which are EVIL QED

The Maoists I was talking about were these nice folks

― Konstantin Ustinovich Chernenko (Konstantin Ustinovich Chernenk), Tuesday, 24 May 2005 12:58 (twenty-one years ago)

ihttp://www.etext.org/Politics/MIM/art/explosives.jpg

― Konstantin Ustinovich Chernenko (Konstantin Ustinovich Chernenk), Tuesday, 24 May 2005 13:01 (twenty-one years ago)

instinct tells me i've gotten into fites with flyboy (not sure) but i never do this, it is laym. it has a sort of mystical twang: basically it isn't used to criticize captalism qua capitalism but something more... vague? insidious? i don't know, but they should stop.

'amerika' isn't just maoists. it's steven wells too.

― N_RQ, Tuesday, 24 May 2005 13:01 (twenty-one years ago)

http://www.etext.org/Politics/MIM/art/explosives.jpg

― Konstantin Ustinovich Chernenko (Konstantin Ustinovich Chernenk), Tuesday, 24 May 2005 13:01 (twenty-one years ago)

http://www.sugarboy.co.uk/images/10471.jpg

― Dadaismus (Dada), Tuesday, 24 May 2005 13:02 (twenty-one years ago)

capitalism:
http://www.ayn-rand.com/graphics/RandAtlasShrugged.jpg
kapitalism:
http://www.iisg.nl/exhibitions/affiche/met/d23-103.jpg

― Konstantin Ustinovich Chernenko (Konstantin Ustinovich Chernenk), Tuesday, 24 May 2005 13:08 (twenty-one years ago)

They both suck so where does that leave us?

― Dadaismus (Dada), Tuesday, 24 May 2005 13:09 (twenty-one years ago)

Spelling stuff with a "k" is the best!!!

― Pashmina (Pashmina), Tuesday, 24 May 2005 13:10 (twenty-one years ago)

AK47 - When you absolutely, positively need to spell Kapitalism to every motherfucker in the room.

http://www.desertcombat.com/Weapon%20Images/Ak47.jpg

― g-kit (g-kit), Tuesday, 24 May 2005 13:11 (twenty-one years ago)

cannot not spot the irony in the ak-capitlism, ha

― t\'\'t (t\'\'t), Tuesday, 24 May 2005 13:14 (twenty-one years ago)

http://www.dustygroove.com/images/products/k/kcthesunshi_kcthesuns_101b.jpg

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Tuesday, 24 May 2005 13:14 (twenty-one years ago)

kc and the sunshine band vs. ak = hopeless, hopeless

― t\'\'t (t\'\'t), Tuesday, 24 May 2005 13:17 (twenty-one years ago)

I think 'custard' should be spelt with a 'K'

― Slumpman (Slump Man), Tuesday, 24 May 2005 13:17 (twenty-one years ago)

ihttp://www.krazy.com/strips/kk220104.jpg

― Dadaismus (Dada), Tuesday, 24 May 2005 13:20 (twenty-one years ago)

http://www.radiohof.org/cards/murraythek.jpg

― Dadaismus (Dada), Tuesday, 24 May 2005 13:26 (twenty-one years ago)

the falw in the pro-k argument, though:

ihttp://www.bbc.co.uk/totp2/features/wallpaper/images/1024/kula_shaker.jpg

― Pashmina (Pashmina), Tuesday, 24 May 2005 13:28 (twenty-one years ago)

Kapital, it fails us now...

― Ian Riese-Moraine is on toffuti break! (Eastern Mantra), Tuesday, 24 May 2005 13:30 (twenty-one years ago)

iihttp://www.simpsoncrazy.com/742/pictures/krusty.jpg

― Dadaismus (Dada), Tuesday, 24 May 2005 13:34 (twenty-one years ago)

http://www.istockphoto.com/file_thumbview_approve/388171/2/Ace_King_Suited.jpg

― Markelby (Mark C), Tuesday, 24 May 2005 13:36 (twenty-one years ago)

ok, "flaw", not "falw"

― Pashmina (Pashmina), Tuesday, 24 May 2005 13:37 (twenty-one years ago)

http://www.99w.com/evilsam/ff/krystal.jpg

― Ian Riese-Moraine is on toffuti break! (Eastern Mantra), Tuesday, 24 May 2005 13:53 (twenty-one years ago)

Every
http://posters.westbalkanonline.com/speedlist/PH0136%20KISS.jpg
http://zwlika2.free.fr/Kiss/Cover/Kiss-ShowUsFront.jpg
http://www.swr3.de/__pix/cover/500x435/2516.jpg

begins with
http://www.onr.com/user/dkline/booms/K.jpg
http://www.lancastermall.com/leasing/images/Kay-Jewelers.jpg

― Ian Riese-Moraine is on toffuti break! (Eastern Mantra), Tuesday, 24 May 2005 13:58 (twenty-one years ago)

http://home.att.net/~bubblegumusic/kkmoi.jpg

― Dadaismus (Dada), Tuesday, 24 May 2005 14:05 (twenty-one years ago)

http://www.showandtellonline.com/images_splash/korn.jpg

(Sorry.)

― latebloomer: B Minus Time Traveler (latebloomer), Tuesday, 24 May 2005 14:27 (twenty-one years ago)

Kopyright.

http://www.dancefloor.com/IMA/klf_WR.jpg

― Ian Riese-Moraine's Plateau Rouge! (Eastern Mantra), Tuesday, 24 May 2005 15:47 (twenty-one years ago)

http://www.burburinho.com/img/nn020305.gif

― walter kranz (walterkranz), Tuesday, 24 May 2005 16:34 (twenty-one years ago)

http://dontstopthenoise.com/yf15.JPG

Spelling Capitalism With AWK

― Curt1s St3ph3ns, Tuesday, 24 May 2005 16:43 (twenty-one years ago)

http://www.iguides.net/mkd/screenshots/menu.jpg

― astropatty (adr), Wednesday, 25 May 2005 13:09 (twenty-one years ago)

three years pass...

Spelling capitalism with a 'K' is merely faux-Marxian affectation, on a par with 'Kandy Korn'.

― Aimless, Thursday, 9 October 2008 02:53 (seventeen years ago)

oh see i thought this was "spelling capitalism with AK" like alaska and that it was about palin

― the valves of houston (gbx), Thursday, 9 October 2008 03:21 (seventeen years ago)

http://img2.travelblog.org/Photos/15572/98449/f/643231-AK-47-2.jpg

― Matt P, Thursday, 9 October 2008 03:36 (seventeen years ago)

http://img403.imageshack.us/img403/3521/41y8kwezc8laa2806160212pw9.jpg

― (libcrypt) (libcrypt) (libcrypt), Thursday, 9 October 2008 04:23 (seventeen years ago)

i'd take a bite out of that piece of kandy

― cameron carr, Thursday, 9 October 2008 07:21 (seventeen years ago)

kandy korn

― cameron carr, Thursday, 9 October 2008 07:21 (seventeen years ago)

Capitalism in German is "Kapitalismus", not "Kapitalism", so if someone spells it with a "k" to allude to Marx it's kinda stupid.

― Tuomas, Thursday, 9 October 2008 07:56 (seventeen years ago)

However, in Swedish it is "kapitalism", so maybe they want to look Swedish?

― Tuomas, Thursday, 9 October 2008 08:02 (seventeen years ago)

Yellow and orange and
Well they taste so good I want to eat 'em
And they taste so good I get to need 'em
Can-can-can-candy
candy

Candy corn
yellow and orange and
candy corn
yellow and orange and
candy
be reborn
be reformed
stay stay warm

― baaderonixx, Thursday, 9 October 2008 08:23 (seventeen years ago)

i smell marx and kandy

― velko, Thursday, 9 October 2008 08:31 (seventeen years ago)

Spelling capitalism with a 'K' is merely faux-Marxian affectation, on a par with 'Kandy Korn'.

'Kandy Korn' = greatest song in the world ever

― Tom D asks, "Are we in love like I think we be?" (Tom D.), Thursday, 9 October 2008 08:50 (seventeen years ago)

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