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@ HODL
2025-06-15 19:20:30
You are mistaking capitalism’s historical implementation for its philosophical essence. Capitalism is not the State. It is voluntary exchange, private property, and profit-driven production. Those behaviors emerge organically in every era, with or without centralized power. States often co-opt or distort capitalism, but they do not invent it. Trade, markets, and capital existed long before modern nation-states. What you are calling capitalism only with the state is really state interference in markets. That is like saying speech only exists because of governments issuing printing licenses. No. Speech exists in spite of them. Same with capitalism.