That's the weirdest thing. My boyfriend cares a lot about people and thinks they are just being held back by their government assistance. He talks about communities taking care of people and stuff. Honestly I think he doesn't understand what exactly communism is. Same linguistic beginnings as communal and community. Though he considers himself a libertarian.
It is incredible how many normally rational people can make an implicit case that black people are being held back by push factors and then complain, in virtually the same breath, about the bad job market. Double think, bitches.
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A libertarian/anarchist coworker once said the following to me in response to my argument that socialism is the natural extension of democracy and capitalism is inherently antidemocratic.
If you think about it, the market is really a better form of democracy than voting. In democracy, I get to vote only once every few years, and I have no influence over the process other than that, but Bill Gates can do a lot more than just vote. He can use his money to influence politicians. If we let the market decide everything, then I can "vote" every time I buy something, so it's much more fair.
High school and early university economics regularly claims this. When I pointed out that, you know, 1% of people get 30% of the votes, the teacher didn't really have anything to say about it. I imagine he went on to tell the next year the same thing.
To be a bit Marxist for a minute, the underlying means of production to capitalism are far from democratic. Nor are they really market-based. Corporations aren't run like markets. It's a bureaucratic, hieratic economic system. It's about information and always has been. It's about achieving a single, simple task quickly. You do not typically use much reason. This is not a system you would call democracy.