Chitownitl20

Chitownitl20 t1_j77u9zx wrote

I’m a social democrat, which is a traditional leftwing libertarian.

Human nature is to defy our natural instinctual thoughts and instead use logical reasoning. It’s what separates us from animals.

Exploitation is naturally animal instinct. It requires power imbalances.

It’s a wild state. We are not doomed to it.

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Chitownitl20 t1_j77q8ni wrote

Exploitation requires imbalance of power. Because we don’t recognize personal property and we have a capitalist legal system, most public property and 100% of personal property is legally categorized as private property.

All property is categorized into private or public property in capitalist legal system. We don’t recognize personal property rights, you go to work at a public company you don’t automatically have equal rights with every worker there over the profits of your labor. The capitalist has legal rights over that.

So you have to use your labor to profit, to be exploited, while the capitalist doesn’t have to work a day in his life gets to hire someone to negotiate against you from a position of privileged ownership under threat of starvation.

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Chitownitl20 t1_j77nrxr wrote

Communism is a theoretical concept of what comes after socialism. Nobody knows exactly what that looks like but we have a general idea of what it can look like.

We know exactly what capitalism is because it’s the current system.

Mercantilism is late stage feudalism. As fascism is late stage capitalism.

You 100% don’t know what capitalism. You can’t have capitalism without exploitation. It simply doesn’t work without exploitation. Not all socioeconomic political systems require exploitation.

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