Comments by "BlackFlagsNRoses" (@blackflagsnroses6013) on "AOC Calls Out Greed Of Big Pharma CEO To His Face" video.
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m. rude Did you literally just claim that Capitalism, the system of exploitation of labor by Capital is about meritocracy and working for what you have?! Do you think millionaires and billionaires work for a living or exploit worker’s and extract the surplus? No individual could work their entire life and earn that much wealth based on their own labor, it’s impossible.
You should actually look into history. When industrial capitalism was taking foot in America during the Civil War period, the self employers, artisans, and agriculturalists were up in arms and did not want it. It was hot debate topic during the time, and the South would argue that the Northern industrialists are no better than their own chattel slavery, as wage slavery was equivalent to their slavery of the black race. The newly formed Republican Party under Lincoln were advocates of the ideals of Classical Liberal Economics and were essentially much a party for labor. However Lincoln mistook the position of rebutting the Southern argument by assuring them that wage labor is not like their slavery, and is superior for the wage laborer can become a capitalist and self-employer. Ironically industrial Capitalism would worsen and make wage slaves of generations exploited by Capital. Lincoln emancipated the slaves, but allowed for the system that would make slaves of many Americans. Americans did not foresee the problems that capitalism would lead to, and the concentration of wealth, privilege, and subsequent eras of robber barons and multi-national corporations.
In this time the first Libertarian Socialist movement arose in America lead by Individualist Anarchists like Josiah Warren, Benjamin Tucker, and Lysander Spooner. Their freed markets are the pinnacle of classical economics, and they’re anti-capitalist. Adam Smith and David Ricardo saw the value of labor. Capitalism favors capital and wealth accumulation over labor.
As Lincoln said “Labor is prior to and independent of capital. Capital is only the fruit of labor, and could never have existed if labor had not first existed. Labor is the superior of capital, and deserves much the higher consideration.” SOTU Address 1861
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m. rude lol spoken like an ignorant Capitalist boot licker. Afraid that the history you’ve been indoctrinated is bullshit. Keep believing freedom is working for the profits of others you fuck boy. Educate yourself cause no one is going to do it for you.
Market anarchists believe in Market exchange, not in economic privilege. they believe in free markets, not in capitalism. What makes them anarchists is their belief in a fully free and consensual society – a society in which order is achieved not through legal force or political government, but through free agreements and voluntary cooperation on a basis of equality. What makes them market anarchists is their recognition of free market exchange as a vital medium for peacefully anarchic social order. But the markets they envision are not like the privilege-riddled “markets” we see around us today. Markets laboring under government and capitalism are pervaded by persistent poverty, ecological destruction, radical inequalities of wealth, and concentrated power in the hands of corporations, bosses, and landlords. The consensus view is that exploitation – whether of human beings or of nature – is simply the natural result of markets left unleashed. The consensus view holds that private property, competitive pressure, and the profit motive must – whether for good or for ill – inevitably lead to capitalistic wage labor, to the concentration of wealth and social power in the hands of a select class, or to business practices based on growth at all costs and the devil take the hindmost.
Market anarchists dissent. They argue that economic privilege is a real and pervasive social problem, but that the problem is not a problem of private property, competition, or profits per se. It is not a problem of the market form but of markets deformed – deformed by the long shadow of historical injustices and the ongoing, continuous exercise of legal privilege on behalf of capital. The market anarchist tradition is radically pro-market and anticapitalist – reflecting its consistent concern with the deeply political character of corporate power, the dependence of economic elites on the tolerance or active support of the state, the permeable barriers between political and economic elites, and the cultural embeddedness of hierarchies established and maintained by state-perpetrated and state-sanctioned violence.
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