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Originally Posted by Beneath the Shadows
I could use the same analogy to argue against socialism. Slavery isn't comparable to either capitalism or socialism.
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It's not? The poor either work for the rich's profit or we starve, we are all bound to 'masters', they privatise land, the means to production and have enslaved the workforce as a result. If a rich man uses the profit that poor people have created for him out of their necessity for the scraps that he throws down for good, it doesn't change the fact that his wealth is illegitimate and his workers are slaves to him, having to accept whatever he feels is adequate to give. And you can say things like that we have minimum wage now, but we wouldn't have that if it wasn't for socialism. Everything that makes capitalism approach legitimacy is rooted in socialist reform.