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Rent-seeking is a cancer, it has to be abolished. There is an alternative to all of that, but you won't like its name.
by derelicta 3y ago
Rent-seeking is a cancer, it has to be abolished. There is an alternative to all of that, but you won't like its name.
- caskstrength 3y ago> Rent-seeking is a cancer, it has to be abolished. There is an alternative to all of that, but you won't like its name. As someone who was born in USSR I can venture a guess that OP won't also like its implementation.
- derelicta 3y agoAs someone whose (some) relatives were born in the old Yugoslavian Republic, they miss its implementation.
- caskstrength 3y agoSo why they are not voting to get it back? It is not like all kinds of Communist/Socialist parties are outlawed in either exUSSR or ex-Ugoslavian countries, it is just that some old people like to reminisce about it but nobody _actually_ wants it back.
- derelicta 3y agoYou can't vote yourself out of capitalism the same way you can't vote yourself out of slavery.
- caskstrength 3y agoSays who? Sure you can! After failed coup attempts Venezuela did exactly that in 1998[0]. But I guess they were no true Scotsman, right? [0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1998_Venezuelan_presidential_election https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1998_Venezuelan_presidential_e...
- derelicta 3y agoSometimes miracles happen :)
- OfSanguineFire 3y agoFor a certain generation of Yugoslavs, it isn’t just the party that matters but the specific man who led it, Tito. Once he died, even though his party remained, things quickly went downhill for Yugoslavia.
- rcpt 3y agoI thought he was talking about land value tax
- HDThoreaun 3y agoWho doesn't like land value tax? "Won't like it's name" pretty much has to be communism/socialism imo
- rcpt 3y agoPretty much every land owner
- midasuni 3y agoI fail to see the similarity between a land value tax and communism
- TotalCrackpot 3y agoWhich alternative do you mean? Communism? Anarchism? Socialism? They all want to abolish rent-seeking and not only, but through very different strategies.
- derelicta 3y agoWell the former is the end goal in both cases. It's just lefists can't answer the following question in a single unified voice: what goes away first? The State, or Capitalism?
- TotalCrackpot 3y agoIn USSR and other Marxist-Leninist experiments arguably both the state and capitalism prevailed. The relation of workers to their workplaces didn't actually change - still taking orders, this time not from the owner of the workplace but from the state beaurocrat. So workers actually didn't have control over means of production, just this time the political class and the owner class got combined into one class - the class of state beaurocracy.
- TheCoelacanth 3y agoA lot of people referred to the USSR's economic system as "state capitalism"[1]. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/State_capitalism https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/State_capitalism
- dukeyukey 3y agoThere's also Georgist Liberalism, which honestly isn't a big sterp away from where we are now. Basicaslly it just means tweaking the tax code.