Socialist economists, such as Robin Hahnel, have criticized the term as an ideologically motivated attempt to cast what is in their view the fundamental problems of capitalism as avoidable irregularities.
Socijalistički ekonomisti, poput Robina Hahnela, kritizirali su ovaj termin kao ideološki motiviran pokušaj skretanja pozornosti na ono što su po njihovom mišljenju osnovni problemi kapitalizma kao npr.