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Capitalism is a stateless society where individuals are free to associate how they wish. Any problems with this definition?

• dragonwriter 3y ago
  > Capitalism is a stateless society where individuals are free to associate how they wish. Any problems with this definition? Well, yes, since “capitalism” was literally coined to describe a particular then-existing system in which the instrumentality of the state not only exists but also, most particularly through a specific structure of property rights, directly serves the interests of the capital-owning class to the relative disadvantage of other segments of society, and has consistently since then referred to that system (or ones sharing some of its salient features) both for those who have advocated moving farther from it and for those advocating its adoption or a return to it in places which have moved on, in whole or in part, from it.
  • alphanullmeric 3y ago
    I'm glad we agree that defining a state to be stateless does not make it stateless. So back to what I was saying, when "the people" come together to enforce laws onto others, they form a state.
• SideburnsOfDoom 3y ago
  > Capitalism is a stateless society... . Any problems with this definition? Other than it's gibberish? Capitalism, a system where money is used to purchase property by individuals, is a society ... without issued currency or individual property rights, you say? Look around you, are capitalist countries stateless, and are stateless countries Capitalistic?