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ubergeek@lemmy.today 5 days agoCapitalism cannot exist without a state ensuring the ruling class keeps being able to exploit the working class.
Otherwise, who secures land claims? Or other private property from being taken by the working class?
finitebanjo@lemmy.world 5 days ago
Without the state, use of force secures land claims, and corporations would be more than happy to release the hounds on the rest of us.
A democratic state is a collection of people, mostly workers, that forces the distribution of wealth and ideally equal rights in a court of law and protection of public lands.
ubergeek@lemmy.today 5 days ago
You just described capitalism, with a fully privatized state. Much like the system in the US…