And you think you'd be able to institute brand new property laws overnight along with mechanisms for the state to expropriate the wealth?
It doesn't work like that, the state is a massive machine, you can't just throw out the old one and install a new one overnight, even if you control the entirety of it. The first levers of power the new revolutionary government is going to pull are gonna be the old ones.
This is really a pedantic argument tbh, I think we're basically on the same page.
Again I realize I'm being pedantic but I don't think that's realistic considering how complicated today's economy is. Immediately expropriating everything from day 1 would likely result in a certain degree of economic disarray simply because the market mechanisms the whole world is built on are fucking stupid.
It'd probably be like a year before all everything is formally expropriated.
You won't get a 100% spanking brand new state with no historical baggage on day 1 of the revolution, that's my only point.
It'd probably be a combination of taxation and nationalization IMO, but I wouldn't completely disregard taxation as a valid mechanism for achieving revolutionary goals just because it's usually framed as a lib tactic.
Sure, but to be fair although GSYBE didn't really specify any details they did say "tax the rich until they're impoverished" which sounds pretty revolutiony to me.
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And you think you'd be able to institute brand new property laws overnight along with mechanisms for the state to expropriate the wealth?
It doesn't work like that, the state is a massive machine, you can't just throw out the old one and install a new one overnight, even if you control the entirety of it. The first levers of power the new revolutionary government is going to pull are gonna be the old ones.
This is really a pedantic argument tbh, I think we're basically on the same page.
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Again I realize I'm being pedantic but I don't think that's realistic considering how complicated today's economy is. Immediately expropriating everything from day 1 would likely result in a certain degree of economic disarray simply because the market mechanisms the whole world is built on are fucking stupid.
It'd probably be like a year before all everything is formally expropriated.
You won't get a 100% spanking brand new state with no historical baggage on day 1 of the revolution, that's my only point.
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It'd probably be a combination of taxation and nationalization IMO, but I wouldn't completely disregard taxation as a valid mechanism for achieving revolutionary goals just because it's usually framed as a lib tactic.
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Sure, but to be fair although GSYBE didn't really specify any details they did say "tax the rich until they're impoverished" which sounds pretty revolutiony to me.