John Dule
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E: 6.57, S: -7.50
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« on: June 17, 2020, 02:55:51 PM » |
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It depends on how you define "capitalism." Without a state and a police force to enforce property rights, you're not going to see anyone amass enough wealth to, say, open a factory or start a large-scale farming operation. So the employer-employee hierarchy would basically not exist. Similarly, the lack of a commonly agreed-to currency would make investments and saving much more difficult, which would contribute to the difficulties involved in accruing wealth. Still though, without the existence of the state you cannot prevent people from engaging in voluntary exchanges that they see as beneficial to themselves, so the spirit of free exchange would still exist. Some form of markets would remain and the economy would mostly function in a barter system. A nonexistent state would, of course, also make it impossible for leftist doctrines of political, economic, and social equality to be enacted.
I like to think of the political compass as a sort of triangle:
The more advanced our technology is, the larger the state can potentially become. The larger the state, the more it can enforce things like racial hierarchy or economic equality. In an anarchist system, certain hierarchies (in terms of skill, strength, and intelligence, for instance) would remain, but there would be elements of economic and social equality as well. So I don't think anarchy can be classified as either left or right, because the lack of state power makes it impossible to enforce a coherent ideology in either direction.
Anyway, this is just my opinion of how the political compass functions. Feel free to criticize.
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