On Thu, Jul 13, 2017 at 8:31 AM, \0xDynamite <dreamingforward@gmail.com> wrote:
On 7/11/17, Steve Kinney <admin@pilobilus.net> wrote:
"Capitalism can not exist without armed State authorities to define and enforce the so-called rights of absentee landlords. Anarcho-capitalism is a contradiction in terms, just a super fashionable name for direct rule by gangs of billionaires who get to do literally anything they want."
The only reason to add the prefix an- or anarcho- to the name of a 19th century political theory or ideology is to make it sound hip and fashionable.
No, that is not true. Capitalism, as an economic method, is devoid of power absent that given strictly by "law of supply and demand". The current capitalism you see today is a result of conquest and usurptation of massive amounts of unearned labor in the form of fossil fuel and nuclear energy.
Marxos
More accurately, what we have today isn't capitalism but corporatism. Someone who had a glimmer of a clue once said something along the lines of: "Capitalism follows the logic of the cancer cell". That's not accurate, but it's close. Corporatism is the proper target - eliminate the laws and practices that enable corporations, and especially those that shield them (and their owners) from liability and responsibility, and we'd be much better off. Kurt