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Those who like to talk about the alleged difficulties of economic calculation in a possible future socialist political-economy do not understand the objective -- and recognized -- difficulties with calculations of supply and demand in really-existing capitalism. Scarcity......Read More

Posted on: 2008-03-05 09:45:34 | Rating:

| Views: 88 | Comments: 0 | Tags: Economic Calculation Scarcity Free-Sharing Exchange Value Need

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The power of capital is an authoritarian power, and this is analogous to the power of the state. Capital is authoritarian government in the workplace, just as the state is authoritarian government within a geographical territory. The employers enjoy a monopoly of authority and......Read More

Posted on: 2008-03-05 10:29:59 | Rating:

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Do the poor officially govern others? Or, do the rich authoritatively govern others? If every piece of land, and every unit of capital is private property, then can't it be stated that the class of property-owners -- as a class -- has made everything their property?......Read More

Posted on: 2008-03-05 10:53:05 | Rating:

| Views: 70 | Comments: 0 | Tags: Property Redistribution Welfarism Enclosures Value

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Karl Marx was one of the last of the classical political-economists. Karl Marx both completed and criticized the classical school of political-economy. Marx wrote at the final culmination of the classical school, and at the early commencement of the neo-classical school.......Read More

Posted on: 2008-03-05 11:01:18 | Rating:

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To own property is to control property; and, to control is to govern. When the bourgeois state incorporated a limited franchise, a restricted suffrage, with political participation limited to the class of property-owners, then it was more obvious that those who owned property were those......Read More

Posted on: 2008-03-05 11:41:28 | Rating:

| Views: 72 | Comments: 0 | Tags: Property Plutocracy

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If slavery enables the transfer of wealth from the slaves to the masters, then it must be that the slaves directly created the wealth by their labor, and then the wealth is transferred from the productive slaves to their unproductive masters. What is alienated from slaves was first produced......Read More

Posted on: 2008-03-05 11:59:15 | Rating:

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When the franchise was limited to the property-owners, and when the elected politicians came from the property-owning classes, that is when the political state was owned, acknowledged, steered, conducted, dominated, directed, and maintained by the class of proprietors. Who owns the......Read More

Posted on: 2008-03-05 12:06:56 | Rating:

| Views: 50 | Comments: 0 | Tags: Franchise Government

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In the case of the United States, the plutocrats owned and controlled the government -- in that they alone had an exclusive right to vote, and to be voted into political office -- from the time of the Constitutional Convention of 1787 until 1920 (in theory), or until 1965 (with the Voting......Read More

Posted on: 2008-03-05 12:12:16 | Rating:

| Views: 60 | Comments: 0 | Tags: Plutocracy Democracy

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In a pluto-democracy, the wealthy proprietors own the state, because they exclusively possess the franchise, and can vote. The wealthy proprietors owned the plutocratic state, because they are given the exclusive privilege of being elected into political office, of being elected......Read More

Posted on: 2008-03-05 12:21:42 | Rating:

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Capitalism necessitates an authoritarian form of government. Capitalism needs a strong-arm state, a coercive and bullying state, a disciplinarian state, precisely because the majority would never tolerate exclusive monopoly proprietorship of the means of production unless such an......Read More