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Re:The Rent Is Too Damn Algorithmic by TotalCrackpot on Tuesday October 10, 2023 @05:20AM (#37830014)
Which alternative do you mean? Communism? Anarchism? Socialism? They all want to abolish rent-seeking and not only, but through very different strategies.
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Re:The Rent Is Too Damn Algorithmic by derelicta on Tuesday October 10, 2023 @05:28AM (#37830046)
Well the former is the end goal in both cases. It's just lefists can't answer the following question in a single unified voice: what goes away first? The State, or Capitalism?
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Re:The Rent Is Too Damn Algorithmic by TotalCrackpot on Tuesday October 10, 2023 @05:54AM (#37830167)
In USSR and other Marxist-Leninist experiments arguably both the state and capitalism prevailed. The relation of workers to their workplaces didn't actually change - still taking orders, this time not from the owner of the workplace but from the state beaurocrat. So workers actually didn't have control over means of production, just this time the political class and the owner class got combined into one class - the class of state beaurocracy.
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Re:The Rent Is Too Damn Algorithmic by TheCoelacanth on Tuesday October 10, 2023 @11:11AM (#37833098)
A lot of people referred to the USSR's economic system as "state capitalism"[1].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/State_capitalism

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Re:The Rent Is Too Damn Algorithmic by dukeyukey on Tuesday October 10, 2023 @06:06AM (#37830239)
There's also Georgist Liberalism, which honestly isn't a big sterp away from where we are now. Basicaslly it just means tweaking the tax code.
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