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When you refer to an ideology with a capital letter does that make the reference related to a prescribed ideology? And when you make a reference in the lower case does it make it just a personal disposition? And why do none of my rock cakes turn out right?

Luncheon meat goes down very well with cherryade.

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Do you mean as in, "The British army marks time, whilst the Red Army Marx time?" (well - it used to.)

As to your second question, try putting some tooty-fruity in them.


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Perhaps because those with capitals start - as with Marxism - with someone's name, but existentialism is just personal. If Sir Real had been a painter, the movement would have taken Das Kapital.

If you will insist on mixing those two comestibles what hope could there ever be for your rock cakes?


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Communism, as a generic theory, would be lowercase, as the ideology of a ruling elite or by others who support that specific ideology it would be capitalized. Thus you might say that early Christians practiced a form of communism, holding property in common and supporting each other financially. The Supreme Soviet of the USSR practiced Communism.


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More about the generic and the specific.
Existentialism has no single figurehead unless you take the anti-hero from "The Outsider" whereas Marxism has a man with a big beard and shifty eyes. Does the capital letter signify a form of ownership?

Tooti-fruitti? I'll give it a try and get back to you....

Luncheon meat goes down very well with cherryade.


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