• rah@feddit.uk
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    No system can entirely eliminate negative human qualities

    I’m glad we agree.

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      My point is that this isn’t a binary situation, but rather a spectrum. Some systems do a better job than others in mitigating these problems. In general, a system needs to be structured in such a way where personal interest aligns with the common interest. Capitalism does the opposite by creating competition between individuals at the cost of social cohesion.

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        this isn’t a binary situation, but rather a spectrum

        I disagree. It is binary, either the word is meaningfully applied in this context or it isn’t. You said that capitalism “enables” exploitation. Being alive enables exploitation. Capitalism may encourage exploitation, it may increase exploitation but I wouldn’t say it “enables” exploitation.

        Unless you have some argument that capitalism somehow provides some specific cause to enable exploitation which is absent from all other systems, while all other systems also provide some different cause which also happens to enable exploitation, your statement that capitalism enables exploitation is incorrect. The specific cause that enables exploitation is being alive and is nothing specific to capitalism. Capitalism is not what enables exploitation. Capitalism does not enable exploitation.

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          Yes, capitalism enables exploitation by allowing people who own capital to decide working conditions for people who do not. This is why exploitation is seen everywhere capitalism has ever been tried. I’ve also gave you a concrete example contrasting communism in USSR and the transition to capitalism along with all the horrors that followed. You just proceeded to ignore that.

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            1 year ago

            People deciding working conditions for others is not absent from all other systems.

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                In response to my comment asserting

                Unless you have some argument that capitalism somehow provides some specific cause to enable exploitation which is absent from all other systems …

                you stated

                capitalism enables exploitation by allowing people who own capital to decide working conditions for people who do not

                which appears to be you attempting to make that argument.

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                  No, the argument being made is that having a handful of oligarchs who own capital make such decisions leads to exploitation. People who have been appointed democratically by the people to represent them deciding such things is a completely different matter. A government in a communist society represents the people, and the means of production are publicly owned by the people. That’s what prevents exploitation that capitalism enables by allowing people to rule over others.

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                    leads to exploitation

                    You’ve introduce a new term here, “leads to”. The discussion we’ve been having was about whether it is valid to say that capitalism “enables” exploitation, not “leads to”. They’re not the same thing.

                    It’s clear from this change in your wording and from this discussion in general that you’re being loose in your use of terminology. We’re having a discussion about whether a particular term is used in a valid way so being loose in the use of terminology completely obviates the discussion.

                    I think the problem is that you don’t want to have a discussion about the use of the word “enable”, you want to rage against capitalism.

                    exploitation that capitalism enables

                    Capitalism isn’t what enables exploitation.

                    Take care.