Quote:
Originally Posted by OccultHawk
I hope everyone can see the obvious truth in that. Private property is a legal concept. Laws are enforced literally at gun point. Therefore capitalism cannot exist without oppression. Not even in theory.
|
Agree 100%. That's why capitalism needs the military, the courts, prisons, the police, i.e. the state, to uphold itself. Capitalism wouldn't survive for a day without an organized institution of armed force. That's one of the reasons for why the state (under capitalism) is
not a socialist institution, but rather a public institution that upholds and strengthens capitalism.
Quote:
Originally Posted by Goofle
Why would a bottle of water cost $100 under a free market system?
|
The era of "free market" capitalism ended in the 1800s, pal. Free competition is abolished more and more as monopolies grow and obtain control over enire branches of industry and exercise their control over public life. That's capitalism at work for ya.
Idk.
Nestlé?