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RE: What do you think about the police?
December 10, 2022 at 10:31 am
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(December 9, 2022 at 8:50 am)Helios Wrote: So your response is yet another ramble that is simply errors stacked on errors .... 
You did not answer my question. What do you think communism is? And if your response is anything similar to " government attempting to establish equal distribution of resources", explain how that could be done without a statistical system.
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RE: What do you think about the police?
December 10, 2022 at 10:42 am
Quote:You did not answer my question. What do you think communism is? And if your response is anything similar to "government attempting to establish equal distribution of resources", explain how that could be done without a statistical system.
So you simply continue to display your ignorance ....
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RE: What do you think about the police?
December 10, 2022 at 11:06 am
(December 10, 2022 at 10:42 am)Helios Wrote: Quote:You did not answer my question. What do you think communism is? And if your response is anything similar to "government attempting to establish equal distribution of resources", explain how that could be done without a statistical system.
So you simply continue to display your ignorance ....
Once again, you did not answer my question. And it's very irritating.
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RE: What do you think about the police?
December 10, 2022 at 11:14 am
Quote:Once again, you did not answer my question. And it's very irritating.
Your ignorance is very irritating......
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RE: What do you think about the police?
December 10, 2022 at 11:23 am
(December 9, 2022 at 3:23 pm)The Grand Nudger Wrote: Capitalism, the private ownership of the means of production.
Communism, the public ownership of the means of production.
Did GB have a broadly capitalist economy at the time? Yes. Was that form of economic organization the cause of the blight, or the famine. No. Strong measures were taken to ensure that capitalism could not undermine british health and wellbeing- at the expense of the irish. I believe the phrase is "god caused the blight, england caused the famine"....?
It was by following the rule of those laws, that the english secured their goods, and by those laws the irish lost what little they had left - leading to diaspora.
If we posited an alternate universe where GB had a largely communist economy at the time - and all other things and actors being equal - they would have done the same thing - as it was the english public that the anti-irish measures were taken to protect. Effectively seizing irish means of production, for the british publics good. It was believed to be better that many irish died or fled, than that an englishman paid more for bread.
I mean, the Irish Potato Famine would be utterly impossible in anarcho-capitalism. Blight would have killed the potato, but the laws that made it impossible for Irish Catholics to grow anything other than potato would not exist. It was stupid senseless laws preventing Catholics from owning more than a small amount of land that made them dependent on potato. And the absentee-landlord system would probably also be impossible under anarcho-capitalism. In anarcho-capitalism, everybody is armed and protects their own property with guns.
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RE: What do you think about the police?
December 10, 2022 at 11:27 am
(December 10, 2022 at 11:14 am)Helios Wrote: Quote:Once again, you did not answer my question. And it's very irritating.
Your ignorance is very irritating...... If you claim what they had during the Great Chinese Famine was not real communism, it is your responsibility to explain what "real communism" is. You say real communism does not rely on a statistical system. OK, then, how does it work?
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RE: What do you think about the police?
December 10, 2022 at 11:29 am
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Quote:If you claim what they had during the Great Chinese Famine was not real communism, it is your responsibility to explain what "real communism" is. You say real communism does not rely on a statistical system. OK, then, how does it work?
Yup and both of those claims are true. Now run along .... 
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RE: What do you think about the police?
December 10, 2022 at 11:44 am
(December 4, 2022 at 3:26 pm)FlatAssembler Wrote: Libertarians, as far as I can tell, tend to be far more knowledgeable about history than other people are.
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RE: What do you think about the police?
December 10, 2022 at 11:52 am
(December 10, 2022 at 11:23 am)FlatAssembler Wrote: (December 9, 2022 at 3:23 pm)The Grand Nudger Wrote: Capitalism, the private ownership of the means of production.
Communism, the public ownership of the means of production.
Did GB have a broadly capitalist economy at the time? Yes. Was that form of economic organization the cause of the blight, or the famine. No. Strong measures were taken to ensure that capitalism could not undermine british health and wellbeing- at the expense of the irish. I believe the phrase is "god caused the blight, england caused the famine"....?
It was by following the rule of those laws, that the english secured their goods, and by those laws the irish lost what little they had left - leading to diaspora.
If we posited an alternate universe where GB had a largely communist economy at the time - and all other things and actors being equal - they would have done the same thing - as it was the english public that the anti-irish measures were taken to protect. Effectively seizing irish means of production, for the british publics good. It was believed to be better that many irish died or fled, than that an englishman paid more for bread.
I mean, the Irish Potato Famine would be utterly impossible in anarcho-capitalism. Blight would have killed the potato, but the laws that made it impossible for Irish Catholics to grow anything other than potato would not exist. It was stupid senseless laws preventing Catholics from owning more than a small amount of land that made them dependent on potato. And the absentee-landlord system would probably also be impossible under anarcho-capitalism. In anarcho-capitalism, everybody is armed and protects their own property with guns.
Nothing is possible under anarcho-capitalism because anarcho-capitalism is an impossibility.
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RE: What do you think about the police?
December 11, 2022 at 8:47 am
(December 10, 2022 at 11:52 am)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote: (December 10, 2022 at 11:23 am)FlatAssembler Wrote: I mean, the Irish Potato Famine would be utterly impossible in anarcho-capitalism. Blight would have killed the potato, but the laws that made it impossible for Irish Catholics to grow anything other than potato would not exist. It was stupid senseless laws preventing Catholics from owning more than a small amount of land that made them dependent on potato. And the absentee-landlord system would probably also be impossible under anarcho-capitalism. In anarcho-capitalism, everybody is armed and protects their own property with guns.
Nothing is possible under anarcho-capitalism because anarcho-capitalism is an impossibility.
Boru
Why would anarcho-capitalism be an impossibility?
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