On Thu, Jul 13, 2017 at 8:31 AM, \0xDynamite <[email protected]> wrote: > On 7/11/17, Steve Kinney <[email protected]> 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
