Power for things like colonizing is the best indicator of a successful state. End state power. I like that the original was intended as a slight against anarchists. States keep projecting that vertical energy.

Privatizing housing is the system that created the problem. Under the current system, housing is a commodity that can be bought and sold. Like any commodity, cornering the market leads to monopoly by which the only supplier is a cartel of a few private entities. Cartel because they work together to fix prices to their benefit.

• What is the primary difference between just one guy and Blackstone?
• Why does just one guy seem legitimate?
• Why should we define property in a way that allows landlords to exist?

Is the assumption here that there are no CPC pedophiles?

The term describes a material condition. State police forces exist. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monopoly_on_violence

My confusion is why collapse back to capitalism?

Let’s start with some axioms. There is a continuum of stages of human societal progression with socialism following after capitalism. Under socialism the workers run the state. USSR socialism was great for the worker.

Given the axioms, why would the USSR decide to create a capitalist class again?

The USSR’s results in the face of outside pressure were great however. Why buckle after putting up such a fight?

Why can struggle against external power move human societal progression backwards?

Let’s examine laissez-faire capitslism on Lemmy. Trivially, how did the “invisible hand” become the “free hand”? That feels like a mix of “invisible hand” and “free market”.

How does such a system overcome “might makes right”? Adam Smith mentions the natural monopoly of kelp farms in Scotland. Who keeps the market free when I can use force to take over such a natural monpoly?

Thereby, I should be able to expand my holdings through force and regulate commerce on my land sort of like… a state? This corresponds with Nozick’s minimal state responsible for a monopoly on violence. Is such a state required for your unfettered system?

I love the understanding nuance displayed in your post. Political groups I disagree with can have progressive and left ideas. The acknowledgment of political spectrums is also fantastic. Left and right do not capture the nuance difference in communism sought by ML’s and anarchists.

I have been told ML’s don’t even want the same communism as anarchists. Moneyless, but the state and classes; that must be utilized for the revolution, my guy. Anarchists, by contrast, find the state and political class systemically flawed. May we build a better system than the state.