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Originally Posted by 4Tran
As an economic system, all that socialism means is that some duties would be better if they were performed by the government. How is that anything like what you said above?
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The government granting itself a monopoly is NOT (!!!) the same as the government performing additional duties. One infringes on personal freedoms, the other is merely a waste of tax money.
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Originally Posted by WanderingKnight
I don't know how much you know about capitalism, but surrender the fruits of labor is exactly what the worker in a capitalist society does. You don't control your work, you surrender your work in exchange for money. Marx defines this as the alienation of the worker from his product in his Economic-Philosophical Manuscripts of 1844.
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Have I not chosen to exchange my work for money? How is that
not having control of my work? Money then, rather than the good produced, is the fruit of my labor. I have chosen to labor under these circumstances.