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RE: No true communist,...
The bums, those who don't work simply because they don't want to... I don't believe there are many people who wouldn't do something productive at least part of the time. There are some no doubt, but I think most people would grow disgusted if they were legitimately "leeching." At the very least most people would aim to better themselves in some way. Personally, I would work my ass of to colonize some planets.
Thank you, @erebus, I have been beating this drum for many years, it brings a smile to my face, and a spring to my step, to have you agree.
Folks work because that is the prime function of our lives, we are driven to survive while minimizing pain, and that means a/c, indoor plumbing, and the internet,.....
I hope you invite your friends to open their minds to alternatives to crapitalism,....
I have actually converted a few people, working on one of my friends right now that is socially left but still believes in the right wing "free market."
No, it wouldnt be a free market. It wouldnt be a market at all, since a market requires some sort of mutual agreement for exchange.
In the term free market, "free" doesnt mean "free or charge", it means that neither side of a transaction is forced or compelled to enter into that transaction against his will. (ie free in the sense of not enslaved or forced).
What youre describing is a system where you get to take whatever you want from someone who produces something, whether he wants to give it to you or not, and give him in return whatever your "moral standard" determines is appropriate.
That's called slavery.
The market isn't free if you are demanding that I give you something in return for your goods, if the market were that you give me goods and my own moral standard says I must reciprocate, that would be a free market.
If you take the time to read those books in my posts it will help with your database that you draw from.
I really didn't understand why the older anarchists wanted to smash crapitalism until I read the books.