• J Lou@mastodon.social
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    2 months ago

    Marx ≠ anti-capitalism

    There are other modern anti-capitalist argument derived from the classical laborists such as Proudhon.

    Markets ≠ capitalism

    In postcapitalism, we can use markets where appropriate. We have practical examples of non-capitalist firms with worker coops and 100% ESOPs.

    There are theoretical mechanisms for collective ownership that can be shown to be efficient like COST.

    There are theoretical non-market democratic public goods funding mechanisms

    @science_memes

    • Socsa@sh.itjust.works
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      2 months ago

      Yes of course there are syndicalist models as well but these things are still fundamentally different approaches to harm reduction. Capitalism is a boogie man bad word for a number of different economic forces which are inevitable in the face of scarcity. Don’t get caught up in linguistic pigeonholes. The point is that we seek to meditate and mitigate these forces, not that we worship some particular dogma which pretends they can be eliminated.