ABSTRACT
This conclusion presents some closing thoughts on the key concepts discussed in the preceding chapters of this book. Capitalism means many different things to different people. The book suggests that capitalism means many different things to different people. A keyword such as freedom or democracy has long been contextually and ideologically mediated, and capitalism is no exception. The efforts to define freedom and democracy were not and have not been merely linguistic or lexical debates. These struggles over freedom and democracy were of course very real material enactments leading to bloodshed, the loss of lives, and hard-earned victories in turn defended against inevitable counter-attacks and attempted reversals. The book contributes to the discussion in finding and facilitating ways to develop a critical and critically engaged consciousness of people's conditions today. Fontana notes that Gramsci distinguished between everyday people and intellectuals in their enactment of those who feel versus those who merely know.
