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Jury unanimously acquits Churchill statue spray-painter (realmedia.press)
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[–] 6 points 8 hours ago (2 children)

The law, incidentally, is also what makes it illegal for said capitalists to kill you for example

This only limits certain actions, not killing in general. There are ways that capitalists legally kill people all the time, like by enforcing car-centric infrastructure or with climate change or by refusing necessary healthcare in privatized healthcare systems or by evicting tenants.

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  • [–] 1 point 8 hours ago (1 child)

    Yes, but under libertarianism that would all be legal. So I'm not sure life without laws would be all that much better than life with laws. Would give even more power to the elites.

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  • [–] 2 points 5 hours ago

    I'm just saying that the legal system is not here to protect the working class against capitalists, it's there to (1) protect capitalists from the working class, (2) moderate conflicts between capitalists. This means that some particularly gruesome activities are moderated to prevent outright revolts, but less visible killings are permitted.

    If we want to make a legal system that actually protects the working class, the first thing it needs to do is prohibit private property over means of production to prevent unlimited capital accumulation.

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