#Capitalism "... it's "a political system in which the government is willing to exert violence to protect ownership claims to the receipt of rents" ".

- Daniel Lakeland @dlakelan

#Quote from post: https://mastodon.sdf.org/@dlakelan/113188657256377188

(full text below just in case the post goes)

" I'm gonna make a much much less drastic claim. And that is, in a democratic society, a market for exchange with a medium of accounting will appear.

That's it. That's not capitalism. It took me nearly 50 years to understand and distinguish between the two because of all the propaganda. Capitalism isn't "selling things" it isn't "markets" it's "a political system in which the government is willing to exert violence to protect ownership claims to the receipt of rents" "