• @acabjones
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    211 year ago

    I agree social democracy doesn’t work, but there are more fundamental reasons to explain why. And besides, the state certainly has the power to control movement of people and capital. So just make a law: you can fully expatriate yourself or your capital, but not both.

  • Anarcho-Bolshevik
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    191 year ago

    That’s a good point to raise. ‘Taxing the rich’ certainly sounds like a good idea at first, and I can sympathize with it, but ultimately it’s nothing more than a short‐term solution that can address the symptoms, but not the causes, of capitalism’s consequences.

    • DankZedong A
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      131 year ago

      It’s more popular because when you say: ‘abolish the rich’, some people will always take that as making everyone equally miserable somehow. Instead, when we say ‘abolish the rich’, we mean that we want to make life better for everyone by banning the forces that prevent us from reaching this.

      But because people are miserable now, abolishing the rich to make them miserable too doesn’t sound like an improvement for many. I think we should start saying: ‘abolish the rich to make our lives better’ to better get our point across.

      • @bleepingblorp
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        41 year ago

        Agreed.

        We say “abolish the rich” to mean "abolish the idea of an owning class so you can’t have a tiny group of stakeholders getting rich off the labor of the workers in the companies the stakeholders own. The ultra-wealthy will just need to live like everyone else, which will be a reasonable “middle class” sort of lifestyle after the factories and warehouses and farms and stores and everything else that makes society tick are put in the hands of the people and used for the people. Unless they stand in the way of the revolution when it happens, in which case they get fucking eliminated.