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Is central planning the only alternative to capitalist decentralized systems? How could you have some other decentralized system without capital?

• koheripbal 4y ago
  Without capital? What does that even mean? "Capital" is just a proxy word for resources. How can you develop anything without resources?
  • wahnfrieden 4y ago
    That’s not what it means within a sentence that uses it in terms of "capitalism"
  • 7sidedmarble 4y ago
    What you're describing is the modern definition, but Marxists use the word to refer to what we would call capitalism: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capital_(Marxism)#:~:text=Capital%20is%20a%20central%20concept,specific%20forms%20of%20social%20relations https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capital_(Marxism)#:~:text=Ca....
  • PaulDavisThe1st 4y ago
    As others are noting, "capital" in this context refers not just to resources, but to a particular pattern of distributing risk & reward among those who supply capital, labor and IP to some human venture. Given that the people doing these 3 things frequently do not overlap, the way in "capital" is preferentially treated when it comes to risk & reward makes it preferable for there to be a term to describe not just the resources, but that whole phenomenon.
• zeckalpha 4y ago
  Distributism, mutualism, anarcho-socialism, etc. are less capitalized models but retail decentralization.
  • Kamq 4y ago
    The question is, how likely is it that those can exist without something more centrally organized showing up to fill the power-vacuum?
    • zeckalpha 4y ago
      Quite! These solutions exist almost everywhere for all time. Look at Little Free Libraries, Mastodon, Open Source, it's everywhere.