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sprucevoid | 11 months ago

> a set of basic rights that aren't in conflict

Do you have a reply to the arguments in these linked texts that property is inherently coercive? https://mattbruenig.com/2015/10/01/capitalism-is-coercive-an... https://mattbruenig.com/2014/05/07/property-and-conflict/

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pdonis|11 months ago

Yes: the definition of "coercive" used in those texts is an example of what I described at the end of my post, the inability to imagine any concept of "liberty" that is not "do whatever I feel like"--or in this case, "grab whatever external resource I feel like".