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You mean cronie capitalism. The Fabian Socialist were big into eugenics, remember. Straight capitalism is based on a free and open market. That’s not what anywhere has.

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leftytighty@slrpnk.net ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
“Free and open markets” work in theory, lol.

Private ownership over the means of production and allowing people to hoard capital will ALWAYS concentrate wealth and will ALWAYS produce an oligarchy.

You just unironically made a “capitalism hasn’t actually been tried yet” post in a thread where you’re on the “communism and socialism never work” position.

The irony is delicious

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- xenspidey@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
  I never said it’s never been tried, lol. But when the government picks winners and losers, it’s not a free market
  
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  - leftytighty@slrpnk.net ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
    The government exists as a check on the power of huge corporations in this model (and is required to enforce private property in the first place). Who stops the richest company from picking winners and losers? Who stops companies from buying up their competition then cranking up prices? You need a framework to keep the market “free” in the first place.
    
    Anarcho-capitalism is an oxymoron, right-libertarianism is an oxy moron.
    
    The problem is capitalism, full stop. There’s no good and bad kind, there’s just capitalism. An owning class dictating over a working class isn’t freedom.
    
    You don’t need private ownership over the means of production to have trade and markets and productivity.
    
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    xenspidey@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
    Right, so corrupt governments only wanting control and power is the answer? That’s just the government being a massive evil corporation
    
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surph_ninja@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
No one would want to. Letting capitalists run rampant (more so than they already do) would be extremely destructive for any society.

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