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You can't have a government, which is by definition a monopoly backed by a military and police force. And then turn around and blame "pure capitalism" because i
by zo1 12y ago
You can't have a government, which is by definition a monopoly backed by a military and police force. And then turn around and blame "pure capitalism" because it appears to have somehow influenced the government monopoly.
- dragonwriter 12y agoSure you can. "Capitalism" has always been a name for a system in which governments exist, and by which governments structure property rights. Certainly, you don't think that the dominant economic system of the late nineteenth century for which socialist coined the term "capitalism" in their critique of that system (a term later adopted by defenders of that system) somehow didn't feature government as a prominent feature?