Thermodolia wrote:Orostan wrote:How do you prevent the small private business from becoming a big private business, and how do you stop those business from wielding significant political power? You are allowing the petty bourgeois to continue existing.
Break them up. Nationalize them.The kind of censorship you propose is reasonable for a state attacked on all sides by capitalist powers, but in a socialist state not in a war or at risk of subversion you wouldn’t need to do that. I think capitalist parties ought to be allowed to exist - but should be under special observation by the state.
This doesn’t fit in with the above statement in which you decry the existence of the bourgeois yet you think they should have a political party.
I don’t think the bourgeois should have a political party. A socialist state by definition does not have a capitalist class to posses a political party. I just think free speech in theory ought to extend to people who are wrong.
Your idea to keep the petty bourgeois down and capitalism in check would require the state to maintain incredibly low corruption. In an economic environment that structurally incentivizes that sort of thing, I have a hard time believing this system could be maintained.
I don’t want to shoot all the economists, though the dumb shit a lot of them say tempts me sometimes. The fact of the matter is that most economists are promoters of the status quo because they get paid to promote the status quo.
The neoliberals should absolutely be deprived of all institutional power though.