Imagine thinking that owning the means of production is the same as "owning property and using it as you see fit." Or that anti-capitalism is pro slavery, wtf lmao.
Abolitionists were capitalists, buddy. Individual rights are the foundation of markets.
I just can't
No, no, you see, akshually, slave markets were crony capitalism...
you own your body, which is why you sell it in the form of your labour power to capitalist to survive.
coerce you into behaviors you don't want to do
Paying ransom for the hoarded necessities of life :ancap-good:
Somewhat related but I once had a lolbert tell me that cavemen lived under Anarcho-Capitalism because they had clubs (private property) with which they got their food (profit). They don't even know what the fuck capitalism is lmfao :ancap-good:
I knew a guy in college who said atoms are capitalist because they exchange electrons.
Minting a trillion Jule electron to prevent the collapse of the thermodynamics
How the fuck do you hunt with a club? Oh look there's a deer, better very loudly move towards it while winding up my swingin' arm.
Motherfuckers don't know about the Atlatl
It gets even better:
Abolitionism was explicitly derived from the idea that a man owns himself. This is an explicitly and exclusively capitalist notion, one not shared by the various other economic ideologies like Socialism or Fascism.
Sometimes I wonder how Marx was able to predict and repudiate statements exactly like this 150 years ago and then I realize these brainworms might not be new. I don't know if that's comforting or depressing.
These people have zero understanding of human nature. They assume that naturally the market will chose the "best" option and that those who already have a lot of property won't be able to make bad-faith efforts to cripple competitors. It's practically a religious faith.
This is the mind if someone who's never thought outside exactly what they needed to think.
Capitalism is when "you" own property, so if you don't own property, you must not be living in capitalism.
owning property and using it as you see fit
not even capitalism. the whole "anticap" critique is that those who own property ARE NOT using it. The workers are using it.
I love when they come up with definitions of capitalism that are either things that have never existed or so broad that something like breathing is capitalist.
capitalists describing socialism: capitalism
capitalists describing capitalism: literally anything but capitalism
