Originally posted by Maslo
Lelt-wing socialist anarchy is a contradicition is terms. Without the state, private property is default and natural, there cant be collectivism on a larger scale with no external forcing, its human nature (which cannot be changed). Again if it works, its only temporary, and using wealth taken from previous private property establishment. Wealth is born in private hands.
How do you come to the conclusion that without a state private property is default? There is no logic in that claim. Before capitalism most people were not 'private owners'. American Natives had no state and no private ownership of the means of production.
Wealth does not have to be 'born in private hands', again there is no logic for that claim. How can you say that when you have never experienced anything different? It's nothing but opinion based on other peoples agendas to coerce you to support something that is not in your best interest.
Instead of fantasies about anarchic utopias, we will do better to focus on gradual improvement of the most successfull and longterm working system to date - social capitalism - which has the best of both worlds
No system is a utopia, but to not strive for utopia is to not even bother, you may as well just let the capitalists run all over us, oh wait you already do...
'Social capitalism'? Capitalism is the 'private ownership of the means of production', adding social to it doesn't change what it is. Capitalism is an economic system not a political one, socialism is an economic system, Anarchism is a political system.
Capitalism has worked very well for a minority of people. Not so well for a large part of the world, especially the third world that was, and still is, raped by capitalists for personal gains that no one benefited from but themselves.
Look at China, do you think they're getting wealthy from all this manufacturing we're sending them? No, and neither are we, the ones expected to buy those products. The only people benefiting from this arrangement are the capitalists, while US workers go unemployed, and Chinese workers make a dollar a day. All this profit going into fewer and fewer hands, when there is an alternative that would make all of us more wealthy.
Capitalism is not natural, not even close mate. It is a system that exploits the majority in order to benefit a minority elite class. We are naturally cooperative, but we are taught to be competitive.
I think you're just scared of change, maybe you earn your money from exploiting others, but for the sake of humanity we need a change, because we are not going to get anywhere if we continue to allow a minority class of 'owners' to dictate and manipulate world events to their benefit. We will just continue to cycle through wars and economic upheavals and never really advance as a species other than making garbage that sells well.


