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Re: bitcoin changing my ideology from socialism to libertarianism! What about you?
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shawshankinmate37927
on 08/10/2014, 15:35:01 UTC
The term "capitalist" is actually a term created by Karl Marx in describing and demonizing the free market.

Interesting, I've learned something new today.  It's good to know that I believe in something that Karl Marx despised.

An absolute free society, anarchism, can only work in heaven;   It requires absolute morality for self interest to work without outside force to achieve justice for all.  That outside force in a government is the level or scale of law required, preferable a minimum because nobody wants to live in a police state.  That force materializes in the power of government over individuals.  Unfortunately all power is corrupting to those who wield it.

We live today in a system that has degenerated into "crony capitalism".   Big government and big business conspire against their enemies in business and politics within our system, using violence against the individual, while violence used by a state is only justifiable when used to protect the individual's rights.

Perhaps Bitcoin will return us, and the world, to a more capitalist/free market reality.

Yeah, I don't think a society with no government is possible.  That's why I'm a minarchist and not an anarchist.