beastieboyofthenet on Nostr: But capitalism IS coercive. The police and other agencies are needed to protect the ...
But capitalism IS coercive. The police and other agencies are needed to protect the capitalist class and preserve this form of economic governance! Capitalism is by its very nature coercive, but in a way more subtle than what came before it. As a matter of fact, any state-based ideology is coercive to some degree, regardless of if it is a democracy or a dictatorship, or if it is socialist or capitalist. The idea should be, who is coercing who? The capitalists coercing workers, or the people deciding the laws that all coerce them equally?
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