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[-] FinnFooted@lemmy.world 5 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

There are non capitalistic economic systems that are also don't require state ownership and are non authoritarian. Literally just incentivizing worker owned coops is an example of how you can drastically shift the economic system without changing the political system. Markets =/= capitalism. The ability to hoard capital and thus power through private ownership is capitalism. I'm not saying that what i described is the perfect system, it's just an example of something possible outside of your argument.

[-] finitebanjo@lemmy.world 2 points 5 days ago

Lol, no, there aren't any such systems currently in existence. No where on earth does that.

Worker owned coops have to compete with privately companies unless private companies are outlawed, but in that example the state is expressing absolute authority over how businesses are structured. If the state gives them the freedom, then capitalistic business structures such as privately owned businesses or publicly traded business with vastly disproportionate ownership shares will form.

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