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But I would push for the community to recognize the illegality of private property Private property need not be illegal on the basis that it automatically becomes under the legitimate ownership of those who produce and enhance it via labour.
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What's stopping you from voluntarily coordinating with like minds and implementing these schemes today? Honest question. The issue of the stock market and investment. Namely that to start up a cooperative it requires a wealthy group of highly incentivised and class conscious producers to invest. To expand the project requires investment in capital;
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*Can someone please tell me how the hell you incorporate quotes in your answers on here after clicking the reply button? No, it's not. The argument is that it would have to be authoritarian. Who decides to build factories? If the plurality of a "community" would impose their will on everyone else, it would essentially be central planning
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Calculation problem The calculation problem rests on the argument that value cannot be assigned to products for comparison in the mode of production under a bureacratic Stalinistic regime, which, it can't. However where the community is autonomous and self-regulatory (libsoc), the value is assigned according to the socially necessary labour time
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I tried to quote you - Valject - in the above post (but failed).
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No, a gift economy is not the same as a barter economy. Labour vouchers are a possible mechanism for distribution.
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What are the other reasons you don't support property rights? Would you impose abscence of property rights or can I be allowed to have them? I personally would enable the producers with use rights (as opposed to property rights) on the provisio that their labour enhances the means of production in one way or another; general ownership is that of
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All liberals should uphold liberalised (i.e. a lack of) gun laws as well as greater political freedoms in general but progressive taxation and the welfare state are perfectly consistent with the ideology which was born out of the French Revolution and was associated with ideas of liberty, equality and fraternity. Liberalism in the Hayekian sense is
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The argument that libertarian socialism is a contradictio in terminis has its basis in the non agression principle. By the non-agression principle, the libertarian propertarians argue that coercion or force is unacceptable unless used in defence of one's own body or one's own property. However for socialists, the acquisition of use rights is
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Socialism is definitely collectivisation of the means of production (that is community ownership with use rights being that of the producer); social democracy on the other hand, is nationalisation. Some socialists believe in a state as a transition phase; others don't (anarchists). Someone said that such a community would 100% taxation which is