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minus-squarelightnsfw@reddthat.comlinkfedilinkarrow-up1arrow-down1·6 days agoThat could be achieved by taxing them sufficiently.
minus-squareDoc_Crankenstein@slrpnk.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·6 days agoTaxing the owning class doesn’t remove the owning class. It does nothing to dismantle the unjust systems of ownership and the governance which maintains its continued exploitation of the working class.
minus-squarelightnsfw@reddthat.comlinkfedilinkarrow-up1·5 days agoTax them hard enough that they don’t have resources to spend on buying everything up and then everyone can be the owning class.
minus-squareDoc_Crankenstein@slrpnk.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·5 days agoThat doesn’t stop them from leveraging their ownership of said resources to force legislation in their favor. You seriously need to read theory and learn how this stuff works.
That could be achieved by taxing them sufficiently.
Taxing the owning class doesn’t remove the owning class. It does nothing to dismantle the unjust systems of ownership and the governance which maintains its continued exploitation of the working class.
Tax them hard enough that they don’t have resources to spend on buying everything up and then everyone can be the owning class.
That doesn’t stop them from leveraging their ownership of said resources to force legislation in their favor.
You seriously need to read theory and learn how this stuff works.