Growing up Ronald Reagan and Margaret Thatcher told us that capitalism went hand in hand with freedom and democracy.
Today we can see that capitalists can quite comfortably walk hand in hand with authoritarianism and fascism to maintain and consolidate their wealth and power.
@danwentzel Authoritarianism and fascism operate independently of capitalism. Capitalism should be recognised as flawed, and that some ways of practicing it are downright insidious, but I'm aware of no other socioeconomic system that has reduced absolute poverty worldwide than capitalism in all its various forms. Capitalism doesn't care for me yet it's the best we have. We should make it work for us, despite its weaknesses, rather than tear everything down to anarchism, and the feudalism that inevitably follows like it did in South Africa not long ago.
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> [...] rather than tear everything down to anarchism, [...]
tbh, i'd like to see voluntaryism at work. might well be a pipe dream, at least it isn't one where the boot on my neck is an inherent requirement.
i agree on the other points :)
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