• smiling_big_baby_boy@midwest.social
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    10 months ago

    Personal property and private property are important distinctions. Personal property is established and maintained autonomously through social connections, while private property is maintained thru coercive systems and institutions (an invention from capitalism).

    The threat of starvation and coercive violence are the main factors incentivizing people to work under capitalism.

    For more - read ANARCHY WORKS by Peter Gelderloos. Chapter: Economy, “Without wages, what is the incentive to work?” (pg. 61)

    https://anarchy.works/primer.html#toc22

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      10 months ago

      Yeah, that works so well that exactly zero countries, among 8 billion people have implemented it

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        10 months ago

        Hm I wonder how that’s possible… You’re really close to understanding how imperialism, colonialism and the war machine works