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Profit is theft not property smh
this post was submitted on 04 Dec 2023
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Private property/capital can be understood as theft because it requires an enclosure of the commons at its root, which is done by force more often than not.
That's critique is more appropriate for something like land, but owning cnc machine and a patent doesn't translate to theft. the fact that workers who do stuff on these machines can't afford what they make does
Okay Rousseau, but Marx' s argument is not that property isn't theft, but that that the existence of the term "Theft" requires accepting that property is valid
Profit is not theft either. The point of capital vol 1 is that exploitation happens without any theft. Even an ideal, "fair" capitalism is still based on exploitation.
Well, yes, but better fit than property.
Plus at some point on the sliding scale of worker not getting full compensation -> peasant paying 60 % to the lord -> slave paying everything and receiving food as recompense for their labor, you can feasibly argue about theft somewhere round peasant mark.
Of course its not legally defined theft, cause tools of the master and law in its majestic equality blah blah