This is silly socialist sophistry. Words means things, and socialism specifically means gov't ownership of capital which necessitates authoritarian control of people's economic decisions, which inevitably degenerates into mass violence. Rothbard explains:https://mises.org/library/end-socialism-and-calculation-debate-revisited …
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In particular, governments usually have a very small number of particular officials who are legally authorized to make decisions regarding the disposal or use of government property their department controls, within usually wide constraints of abstract laws and executive orders.
To call this being "controlled by the community" is a malicious double lie -- the electorate of a typical state does not form a community of people who talk to each other peer-to-peer, and the actual legal control is in the hands of only an extremely small number of officials.
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We've never had perfect free markets and never had perfect communism. But we've come close. The freest markets we've had are places like Switzerland and Hong Kong. The most communist places like Cambodia & North Korea. Look and compare!
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There's no such thing as a community of a million.
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All of these, when the are actual communities, have far less than a million people.
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P.S. don't get me started on "social contract." Yet another political buzzword that turns out to be preposterously false and dangerously misleading when one studies the actual law (here of contracts, for this thread of property).
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Yes all he had to do was study some actual contract law.
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P.S. I don't necessarily agree with his conclusion. Constitutions are much more akin to treaties, which can be and almost always are agreed to under coercion, whereas coercion nullifies an actual contract. I generally consider treaties to be legit, just not as legit as contracts.
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"Some leftists believe that the socialist world would work well if the 'good people' were in charge of it, they do not realize that, by definition, good people do not want to control the lives of others."pic.twitter.com/tbJY2EHFGm
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"actual legal control is in the hands of only an extremely small number of officials" makes stealing that much easier. Socialism is at is core a kleptocracy It is driven by theft and quest for personal power over the populace.
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Well, our situation is not that much different, taxation is basically a form of serfdom, as argued brilliantly by Robert Nozick
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"Cancer of Bureaucracy"... by Bruce Charlton
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Yep. Any “free public resource” requires capital accumulated by private citizens who don’t use the service.
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