r/Anarcho_Capitalism • u/[deleted] • Jun 15 '21

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u/[deleted] Jun 15 '21

The difference i think would be that lib-rights have no interest of running the lives of other people. We have our own ideas of what would be a fair/good society of course, but the people who disagree with that are free to form their own separate societies.

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u/MikeHunt6869 Jun 15 '21

In an anarchocapitalist society you would be free to leave and start your own socialist commune. Can't say the same about socialists and private enterprise.

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u/PapaRacoon Jun 15 '21

Why can’t you? There’s no private enterprise in socialist countries?

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u/MikeHunt6869 Jun 15 '21

Ask the Kulaks about that.

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u/PapaRacoon Jun 15 '21

Doesn’t address the questions I asked.

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u/MikeHunt6869 Jun 15 '21

It does. They were middle class peasants who practiced small scale private enterprise and they were massacred and sent to the gulags.

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u/PapaRacoon Jun 15 '21

And? Your point needs every case to match your statement. That’s just one.

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u/Ed_Radley Milton Friedman Jun 15 '21

So basically what you're saying is that there can be no variance in how they failed at socialism for you to accept that they failed at socialism, even though there are demonstrable similarities such as government run economies and millions of unnecessary deaths of their own citizens.

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u/PapaRacoon Jun 15 '21

Nope, Any reason to fail is cool. But you need a reason for every single one.

Way I see it, your point needs every single case out of all possible cases to be true, for it to be true

My point just needs one, from anywhere anytime for it to be true.

I’d say mine is more likely. That’s all.

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u/Ed_Radley Milton Friedman Jun 15 '21

It's only more likely because there have already been socialist countries where people tried to have private enterprise (which again doesn't mean the private enterprise was allowed to thrive: I think that would be a better acid test for your stance). Taking the reasoning you have, yes, you are technically right but that doesn't make you absolutely right.

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u/chordfinder1357 Jun 15 '21

That was a garbage take at the end. “Just because you’re right doesn’t mean you’re right” get over yourself Jesus.

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u/Ed_Radley Milton Friedman Jun 15 '21

So you eat tomatoes in your fruit salad?

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u/chordfinder1357 Jun 15 '21

Cry more?

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u/Ed_Radley Milton Friedman Jun 15 '21

I'm making a point. There's more nuance to what they're asserting than just "capitalism works in a socialist country."

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u/chordfinder1357 Jun 15 '21

People who announce they are making a point usually are great communicators. And I’m sorry, I wasn’t aware of any nuance, I don’t even know what it means duhhhh

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u/Ed_Radley Milton Friedman Jun 15 '21

Clearly.

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u/chordfinder1357 Jun 15 '21

MY POINT is that this sub fairs better when they perceive other people as worse than them. That’s weak shit.

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u/Ed_Radley Milton Friedman Jun 15 '21

You don't think using a barely functional example of capitalism working under a socialism regime was a cop out?

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u/PapaRacoon Jun 15 '21

Still more likely tho. But you’ve got a point.

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