04-10-2012, 09:00 AM
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Quote:
Originally Posted by DamageX
Why do you keep talking about "the state"? Free market means voluntary exchange of goods and services, the state's only role would be to enforce (voluntarily agreed upon) contracts, should any of the parties involved break them. And I'm sure there are those who'd argue that even that function can be performed by private actors, without bias.
Besides, I'm pretty sure I can find images showing the trade unions initiating violence, just like you showed the opposite above.
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I talk about the State because that is the real situation. Do you know of a country with a "Free Market" but no State?
Marx puts it better than me
the state arose from the need to hold class antagonisms in check, but because it arose, at the same time, in the midst of the conflict of these classes, it is, as a rule, the state of the most powerful, economically dominant class, which, through the medium of the state, becomes also the politically dominant class, and thus acquires new means of holding down and exploiting the oppressed class....? The ancient and feudal states were organs for the exploitation of the slaves and serfs; likewise, ?the modern representative state is an instrument of exploitation of wage-labor by capital |
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