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Matty done thunk some thoughts...


More context on this post will be forthcoming in the near future.



Some logical problems with the three main complaints one might make about capitalism;
a. Value is created by work/workers and then redistributed by employers away from those workers. Their wages represent only a part of the total sales price of the goods they produce and the difference between total revenue from those sales and the worker's income constitutes exploitation in the Marxian sense
b. All private property in land that is non-residential is tantamount to violence against the persons of anybody who doesn't own land.
c. Capitalism kills millions of people every year by starvation and preventable diseases

There are answers to all three, however;
a. Parasitism relies on theft of labour-produced value - relies on labour theory of value - which is metaphysical and so fictive
b. Anti-propertarianism relies on appeal to 'society' or 'the collective' enjoying claims over-riding those of original appropriators - 'society' and 'the collective' are nothing personified - fallacy of reification
c. Statements to the effect that capitalism kills people outside of specific workplace and renting situations when it is just a mode of production is a non sequitur - "Maybe deaths from working conditions at a workplace that is run for profit can count but nothing else can."

So all three arguments are fallacious.

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