A Soviet Prisoner's View on What's Important

Re:A Soviet Prisoner's View on What's Important by lifeisstillgood on Thursday August 05, 2021 @01:58PM (#28077243)

I genuinely don't understand the idea that markets can somehow operate outside a social / political framework. Barter economies maybe but anything involving money or contracts. Imagine a free market without say any legal framework for contracts?

I remember a few years back the Libertarian party candidate saying "yes a driving license seems a good idea" and almost being forced from the job. Is that where you are coming from?

I disagree that politics is "deciding for others without their consent". That seems to describe violent dictatorships. (Yes that's a form of politics but not one I am advocating)

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Re:A Soviet Prisoner's View on What's Important by _0ffh on Thursday August 05, 2021 @03:00PM (#28078025)

I'm giving up, you just keep conflating the social and the political this is getting tiring! And no, you don't need politics to draw up contracts or have money or a legal framework, that's a thoroughly confused point of view. And yes, politics is exclusively about coercion, because if you can convince somebody to do something voluntarily you don't need politics to make them. Ultimately, all political power comes from the barrel of a gun.

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