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A point lots of socialist like to make. But practically speaking that is the only market economy that has ever existed beyond a few short lived experiments and those were questionable.

You can only have a market if you have property rights. And property rights without the ability of having somebody else on work on your land/maschine doesn't really make sense.

Many of the market socialist theoriest totally failed to put their ideas into practice. And I have yet to actually see somebody come up with a coherent alternative.

Seems to me the whole 'market economy' term is just used by socialist when they dont want to admit the benefits of capitalism.Therefore imply some alternative that has markets but not all the bad parts.

These ideas come around again and again and I have never seen anything that is actually coherent.



Nowhere in my previous comment do I mention abolishing property rights. This has nothing to do with socialism, and I'm not sure why you think it has. This is about replacing the monarchic corporate structure with a democratic corporate structure; please refute democracy and argue in favor of monarchy if you think this is wrong.


Here is the refutation. I own the legal entity therefore I get to say how the thing works.

Now you are free to associate or not with the legal entity, but while you are associated with the legal entity, I get to dictate how it runs.


You are talking about a system that has never existed and I'm not even remotely clear what 'democratic corporate structure' would mean in practice.




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