[dionysus_jon]

If someone living today called themselves a capitalist would you expect them to be involved in "forcible seizure and defence"?

[dragonwriter]

> If someone living today called themselves a capitalist would you expect them to be involved in "forcible seizure and defence"?

Given the diversification most capitalists have and looking at what major corporations do globally, yes, though I'd also expect them not to think of themselves that way.

Drug cartel leaders, I'm sure, often have similar self-serving rationalizations of their role.

[dionysus_jon]

Ok, thanks :)

We can't go any further on here, too much ground to cover.

[reedwolf]

>If someone living today called themselves a capitalist would you expect them to be involved in "forcible seizure and defence"?

Do you consider executives of, oh let's say, the Coca-Cola Company, to be capitalists?

[dionysus_jon]

Yes...

Assuming you are probably thinking of linking something like this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sinaltrainal_v._Coca-Cola_Co. ?

Illegal activity is illegal. Capitalism has law and a stable society as a prerequisite.

[nieve]

From related portions of the economy: given the growing use of debtor's prisons, predatory loans, and coercive tactics including armed repossession & bounty hunting dependent on an exploitive for-profit bond regime? Yes. These are not companies rejected by modern capitalism. On a higher economic level private equity's leveraged buyouts are very frequently hostile takeovers that use a company's own resources to seize control of it.