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Yup, they don't believe there should be private ownership of capital/property. What is often overlooked is the only way to administer community ownership is an
by dreamdu5t 14y ago
Yup, they don't believe there should be private ownership of capital/property. What is often overlooked is the only way to administer community ownership is an elite group that decides who gets what. A very common misconception amongst socialists and other self professed anti-capitalists is that economics is a zero-sum game. It is not.
- scarmig 14y agoAttributing to other people false opinions is pretty rude. This is what I in a separate comment referred to as "propertarian" libertarianism: it worships the almighty State as having full knowledge of what society should look like, and establishing it through a mass violence that's mischaracterized as "property." I'd encourage you to look beyond pamphlets on the Internet and into actual work on how economics works. Start with Elinor Ostrom: you put up a very false dichotomy between state management from above and state regulation from above via property rights. In reality, societies base most of their economic activity on something entirely different: shared community norms. That's how households are run, that's how open source is run, that's how the commons is typically protected. And it outperforms state control in many or most cases.