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Any real implementation of Distributism would require a strong state and police force to enforce it and in practice would look identical to socialism.
by mjfl 8y ago
Any real implementation of Distributism would require a strong state and police force to enforce it and in practice would look identical to socialism.
- nabla9 8y agoAll robust implementations of capitalism require state and police force to enforce property rights. Property is monopoly to assets given by the government.
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- baddox 8y agoYou can certainly have property rights without a government, they just may not be “fair” according to some definitions (of course, specific implementations of government protection of property rights also may not be “fair” according to some definitions).
- JetSpiegel 8y agoThat's just might makes right, there's no property there since you can take what you want. Property implies you use the state (an external entity) to enforce your rights, providing checks on individual power, not that you enforce it yourself.
- Proven 8y agoThat is pure nonsense. Property existed before the government. It's a small detail but it does show how shallow most comments to this article are. Complete cluelessness! It is appalling to see that so many supposedly "smart" commenters support redistributionist ideologies (one comment even quoted Dengism as an example of a successful redistributionist system!).
- nosuchthing 8y agoAre you implying regulation/anti-trust/anti-monopoly/anti-plutocracy is socialism? Do you understand the difference between state/corporate socialism, and regulations?