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Bay Area homeowners are hiring a sword-wielding man to help them kick squatters out of empty properties: ‘The average squatter has no melee experience’ (www.independent.co.uk)
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[–] -4 points 10 months ago (7 children)

OK Marx sure. So what do u replace it with? Someone has to "own" ie control all the things and if u just hand it all over to some entity "the state" you have just reinvented aristocracy.

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  • [–] 7 points 10 months ago (6 children)

    Someone has to “own” ie control all the things

    That's an extremely silly statement. Do you really believe in a single global landlord that owns everything that everyone else must pay rent to? If one person owns everything like you say, you just destroyed private ownership.

    You managed to accuse me of being both Marx and a monarchist all while you call to end any private ownership in just one post.

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  • [–] -4 points 10 months ago (5 children)

    That is possibly the worst faith interpretation of my statement. Everything is owned by someone not necessarily the same someone. For instance I own and am thus responsible for my property, someone else is responsible for their property hence everything is owned by someone.

    What's the functional difference between communism and a monarchy? In both cased all property is owned by "the state" and can exercise control over that property however they please. Democracy doesn't work cos the people have no control of any property and thus are completely beholden to the state. Good luck protesting against the government when you have no food, water, means to communicate, and travel. What are u gonna do about the inevitable authoritarian takeover? Die?

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  • [–] 3 points 10 months ago (4 children)

    actually, ownership is a human invention and it is not necessary at all.

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  • [–] -3 points 10 months ago (1 child)

    Ownership is simply the word we use to describe the person who ultimately controls and is thus responsible for any particularly thing. Please describe a system in ownership isn't a thing. The only one I can think of is anarchy until someone finds a gun and announces that everything now belongs to them and that their is nothing u can do about it

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  • [–] 3 points 10 months ago

    anarchy until someone finds a gun and announces that everything now belongs to them and that their is nothing u can do about it

    it is anarchy. your gunman is a despot, and is not part of anarchism.

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