How Facebook Is Fueling the French Populist Rage

Re:How Facebook Is Fueling the French Populist Rage by krapp on Thursday December 06, 2018 @08:53AM (#18618018)

>Populism on the Right is instead via a more democratic method of building a strong market that lifts all ships.

...also at the point of a gun.

You're being disingenuous in evoking the monopoly of force but only applying it to "the left", in order to imply that, "socialist" governance is more coercive (and thus less legitimate) than any other.

If you live in a state that collects taxes or regulates the market, or any system other than anarchy, then you live under a regime that distributes wealth at the point of a gun.

And with anarchy, you're just trading the monopoly on violence for a free market of violence.

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Re:How Facebook Is Fueling the French Populist Rage by douglaswlance on Thursday December 06, 2018 @10:51AM (#18619012)

Socialist Populism seeks wealth redistribution for individuals by using force against people (in addition to organizations) via taxation.

Market Populism seeks wealth redistribution for organizations by using force against organizations exclusively to break up local maxima (monopolies, duopolies, etc.).

Both use force, but one operates on the individual level, the other at the organizational level.

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