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by vidarh
4540 days ago
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How will you have "true freedom" in a world where your access to resources is restricted by government enforcement of private property? What you describe as a whole is tautological. A world where "one person or group of people enforces control over others is both alien and absurd" is pretty much by definition not capitalist in any shape or form. Not only that, but most people who want such a "capitalism" and then invoke reductions in government control tend to want to remove lots of the regulation that reigns in capitalism somewhat to protect the freedoms of the rest of society. "Purer" capitalism has been rejected time and time again because of what it implies. Numerous lives were lost of the many decades US unions fought to get recognition of the 8 hour working day, for example (and May 1st is still celebrated as the international day for workers demonstration partly in recognition of the AFL-CIO's restart of the battle for the 8 hour day after the Haymarket Massacre), because of how uneven the power is and was between employer and employee in most fields: You may have any number of de jure freedoms, but they are irrelevant to someone who will starve to death if they exercise them. |
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