• Cowbee [he/they]@lemmy.ml
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    2 hours ago

    Yes, capitalist property is hostorically siezed by the people through force, just like feudalism was ended by force. I don’t have rose tinted glasses, I know force is required, I just see it as necessary and the outcome extremely positive.

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      1 hour ago

      That’s a fine perspective to have. But it is the textbook definition of robbing someone at gunpoint.

      They have something of value that you want, you don’t want to exchange said value for it, so you take it by force… at gunpoint.

      Maybe there’s a moral justification for that. Maybe you think they don’t deserve it, or you need it more, or you think their ownership of it represents it’s own form of theft… But they’re definitely getting robbed at gunpoint.

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        Capitalists already steal value from workers by paying them less than the value they create. One short bout of “theft” to take back what was stolen over centuries isn’t really theft, it’s returning what’s owed.