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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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ItsAlwaysSmokyInReno t1_j77oo9t wrote

That’s just wrong at a basic level. Have you ever taken a course on macroeconomics?

Socialism is a vague term that has no meaning and everyone applies it to what they want. Communists all called their countries socialist, and you’re naive as fuck if you think communism hasn’t been tried

capitalism, real capitalism in the vein of Adam Smith; is anti-exploitative and urges equality of opportunity. Like he said “the measure of a society’s wealth isn’t the gold in a kings vault but the prosperity and well being of its people”

Communism, like fascism, is inherently authoritarian by nature.

Anyone advocating to replace our failed economic system with an even worse one is naive at best and an arrogant idiot at worst.

Social democracy is the way to go. Capitalist free markets with socialist government services. But you’ll probably make a comment all the lines of “that’s why we call you a succ dem hehe” right?

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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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ItsAlwaysSmokyInReno t1_j77n1ca wrote

I mean it’s ironic when you clearly don’t know what capitalism is. Capitalism has its faults, just like communism…

But what you’re describing is the economic system of mercantilism and colonialism. Which Americans don’t realize for some reason capitalism replaced in the 19th century

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