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Old 01-06-2007, 07:34 PM
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Default Re: Libertarian Socialism - I don\'t understand...

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Libertarian socialism seems like it's arguing that private property needs to be banned but without a coercive state... How on earth can one ban private property without a coercive agent forcing the situation?? I would own stuff I produce, and I'd want to protect it from other a$$holes.

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You don't need a state to do this, you just need enough people who don't care about the potential of retaliation and they'll "steal" all the "property." (Of course, if enough people don't believe in property ownership, it ceases to have any meaningful existence.)

Anarcho-socialists believe that this will still incentivize production, which I think is batshit crazy. A human's natural incentive to consume FAR outweights his incentive to produce. Production in our world is almost always motivated by either status-seeking or consumption. Give someone a UBI, tell him he doesn't have to work, but he can if he wishes to contribute to the common good, and you're almost certainly going to have one very lazy person.
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