• xerazal@lemmy.zip
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    4 months ago

    Capitalism is a system of economics. It can exist with or without a government also existing.

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      4 months ago

      Capitalism cannot exist without a government of some sort, as Private Property Rights are only legitimized by the threat of violence.

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        4 months ago

        I was gonna disagree, but I couldn’t actually think of a functioning stateless ideology which allows private property. Anarchism is inherently for abolishing private property, so that’s out already. That mostly just leaves you with "anarcho-"capitalism which is just replacing the government with an ultra-capitalist power structure and decimating social mobility, it’s just an undemocratic state but shittier…

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          Yep, trying to untie Capitalism from the states that accompany it is usually just a futile attempt at keeping the Capitalist State’s sins separate from Capitalism.

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      4 months ago

      I agree, but the bigger the government the less capitilism there is because they are controlling the system. I am not saying its good or bad, but the economic system is highly controlled.