- 18 Feb 2009 08:38
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Capitalism is an inherently statist force for two reasons:
1. It requires total participation within its area of effect. All must agree to the property paradigm or be dealt with in some way
2. It results in inequality of wealth and of power (in terms of control over the economy)
Nobody would participate willingly in an economic system designed to subordinate them to someone else, and thus some form of coercion must be used to make people participate. Regardless of whether or not this power has been devolved from a central government to a local businessman, it is still unmistakably the power of the state.
1. It requires total participation within its area of effect. All must agree to the property paradigm or be dealt with in some way
2. It results in inequality of wealth and of power (in terms of control over the economy)
Nobody would participate willingly in an economic system designed to subordinate them to someone else, and thus some form of coercion must be used to make people participate. Regardless of whether or not this power has been devolved from a central government to a local businessman, it is still unmistakably the power of the state.