• Digital_man@lemmy.one
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    White capitalism is what made black people slaves and pushed them into poverty.

    Perhaps we need new ideas that help everyone.

      • explodicle@sh.itjust.works
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        Why not? Capitalism is private control over the factors of production - it’s not “equal freedom” or anything like that. The American South was capitalist during chattel slavery.

        And that’s not even getting into wage slavery.

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          Capitalism is private control over the factors of production

          If someone is legally exercising force over someone else, they are a de facto entity of the state.

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              From DuckDuckGo:

              1. An economic system in which the means of production and distribution are privately or corporately owned and development occurs through the accumulation and reinvestment of profits gained in a free market.
              1. An economic system based on predominantly private (individual or corporate) investment in and ownership of the means of production, distribution, and exchange of goods and wealth; contrasted with socialism or especially communism, in which the state has the predominant role in the economy.
              1. A socio-economic system based on private property rights, including the private ownership of resources or capital, with economic decisions made largely through the operation of a market unregulated by the state.
              1. A socio-economic system based on the abstraction of resources into the form of privately-owned capital, with economic decisions made largely through the operation of a market unregulated by the state.
              1. A specific variation or implementation of either such socio-economic system.
              1. An economic system based on private ownership of capital.

              This isn’t necessary for all of them, but from Wikipedia:

              A state is a political entity that regulates society and the population within a territory.

              Slave masters are regulators of population, so they are an actor of the state.

      • TopRamenBinLaden@sh.itjust.works
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        I’m just going to assume this is sarcastic, because I refuse to believe that anyone actually believes this, even eager capitalists, themselves.

        If it’s somehow not sarcastic, you are either ridiculously ignorant about the world and it’s history, or blatantly lying.