supersquirrel@sopuli.xyz to Showerthoughts@lemmy.world · 22 days agoPirates are just hyperindividualized, privatized navies engaged in a competitive market with one another so how can they be worse than navies according to the logic of capitalism?message-squaremessage-square23fedilinkarrow-up117arrow-down14
arrow-up113arrow-down1message-squarePirates are just hyperindividualized, privatized navies engaged in a competitive market with one another so how can they be worse than navies according to the logic of capitalism?supersquirrel@sopuli.xyz to Showerthoughts@lemmy.world · 22 days agomessage-square23fedilink
minus-squareBlackLaZoR@fedia.iolinkfedilinkarrow-up0arrow-down1·22 days agoCapitalism by definition runs on legal framework. If you’re not adhering to the legal framework, you’re not engaging in capitalism
minus-squaresupersquirrel@sopuli.xyzOPlinkfedilinkarrow-up0·22 days agoAccording to who? I have seen zero evidence in my life capitalism requires a legal framework, it simply requires the threat of violence.
minus-squareshalafi@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·21 days agoA legal framework is a monopoly on violence.
Capitalism by definition runs on legal framework. If you’re not adhering to the legal framework, you’re not engaging in capitalism
According to who? I have seen zero evidence in my life capitalism requires a legal framework, it simply requires the threat of violence.
A legal framework is a monopoly on violence.