The People's Line

The People's Line

Socialism isn’t the opposite of liberalism – and it isn’t liberalism 2.0, either.

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Carl Beijer
Jul 20, 2019
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Ideologically, capitalism relies on one simple proposition: that property can be held privately. As Marx put it, all criticism of capitalism “is ultimately reducible to criticism of private property as a barrier and obstacle” to collective management. It is the right of private property that the bourgeoisie exercises in its control of the means of produ…

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