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Binary thinking says: If I think this way, then they cannot also think this way. If we think
this way, then they must think that way.
For example, those who favor capitalism believe in property rights and free exchange.
If ideological capitalists believe in property rights and free exchange, then the ideological
socialists cannot believe in property rights and free exchange. Socialists canot believe in
what capitalists believe in. Socialists are said to condemn property and exchange. This
polarity of ideas and opinions is the product of a false dichotomy. Socialists do believe in
the rightness of personal property. What socialists oppose is private property in the means of production. A private home is a place of privacy; a private factory is not a place of
privacy. Why? Because there are many employees who enter the factory to engage in
collective production. Socialists also believe in free exchange, but not in free-market
exchange. Socialists believe in market-free exchange. Socialists believe in not-for-profit
exhange, in free-sharing exchange, in mutual-aid exchange.
And so, capitalists believe in freedom of property and in freedom of exchange. But so do
socialists. Binary thinkers cannot see that the ideas and opinions of the capitalists and the
socialists interface, that there are points of contact, positions where the two opposed
ideologies can connect.
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Posted by rallen2 on 2009-11-04 15:31:44 | Rating: | Views: 12
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