• pelespiritM
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      Abolishing capitalism pre-distributes wealth so that people don’t become billionaires in the first place. 100% land value tax encourages efficient use of

      This part. Having employee owned corporations doesn’t abolish capitalism completely. Although, I agree that it would be awesome.

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        There has never been a worker-cooperative-dominated market economy, but actually existing worker coops and employee-owned corporations don’t seem to create billionaires, and have more equitable distribution of wages.

        Why does mandating all firms to be worker coops not abolish capitalism in your view?

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          I would suggest looking into what capitalism is before we have that conversation.

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              Okay, in what country has the mutualist perspective inspired by the classical laborists type of capitalism worked?

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                Classical laborists and mutualists were anti-capitalists. Some of whom predated Marx.
                As I said, a mutualist economy or economic democracy has never existed. The modern arguments for economic democracy were first published in a book released in the 1990s. However, we have plenty of examples of worker coops and employee-owned corporations working well under capitalism. An economic democracy or mutualism differs from capitalism in that all firms are mandated to be worker coops

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