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Re:Hundreds arrested as crime chat network cracked by dionysus_jon on Thursday July 02, 2020 @10:02AM (#23713169)
If someone living today called themselves a capitalist would you expect them to be involved in "forcible seizure and defence"?
Re:Hundreds arrested as crime chat network cracked by dragonwriter on Thursday July 02, 2020 @10:08AM (#23713229)
> If someone living today called themselves a capitalist would you expect them to be involved in "forcible seizure and defence"?

Given the diversification most capitalists have and looking at what major corporations do globally, yes, though I'd also expect them not to think of themselves that way.

Drug cartel leaders, I'm sure, often have similar self-serving rationalizations of their role.

Re:Hundreds arrested as crime chat network cracked by dionysus_jon on Thursday July 02, 2020 @10:13AM (#23713286)
Ok, thanks :)

We can't go any further on here, too much ground to cover.

Re:Hundreds arrested as crime chat network cracked by reedwolf on Thursday July 02, 2020 @10:20AM (#23713353)
>If someone living today called themselves a capitalist would you expect them to be involved in "forcible seizure and defence"?

Do you consider executives of, oh let's say, the Coca-Cola Company, to be capitalists?

Re:Hundreds arrested as crime chat network cracked by dionysus_jon on Thursday July 02, 2020 @01:21PM (#23715597)
Yes...

Assuming you are probably thinking of linking something like this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sinaltrainal_v._Coca-Cola_Co. ?

Illegal activity is illegal. Capitalism has law and a stable society as a prerequisite.

Re:Hundreds arrested as crime chat network cracked by nieve on Thursday July 02, 2020 @10:17AM (#23713328)
From related portions of the economy: given the growing use of debtor's prisons, predatory loans, and coercive tactics including armed repossession & bounty hunting dependent on an exploitive for-profit bond regime? Yes. These are not companies rejected by modern capitalism. On a higher economic level private equity's leveraged buyouts are very frequently hostile takeovers that use a company's own resources to seize control of it.