Yesterday, I made the claim that I 'live and breathe capitalism', so I wanted to check myself to see how true this is. Given the following qualifications, I think it's actually true:
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1. Capitalism is an abstract term, which cannot be usefully deployed in serious conversations without qualification.
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2. Capitalism doesn't work without equality - if players don't believe that the field is even, then they will try to break the game.
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3. This means that Capitalism requires a centralised State. A State simply refers to a federal government by any other name. Even if it includes anarcho-syndical traits, there needs to be a clearing house for global issues, regardless of what size of universe you try and implement this in. Any complaints that Capitalism and State are intertwined simply miss the point that this is part of the definition of Capitalism. So now to reduce ambiguity we shall just refer to it as State Capitalism (sic).
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4. Every implementation of State Capitalism needs to include an agency of the state, whose responsibility to the public is to curate, update, and propagate a clear definition of Equality. Mechanisms for civic interaction with such an agency must exist.
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5. State Sanctioned Dissent should be routinely funded, and facilitated under an explicit protocol, which should of course be subject to itself. Dissent should be routine, and the first step in an algorithm for Continuous Improvement. One expects a basic pattern of (5a.) [ Dissent -> Survey -> Definition of Research Methodology -> Methodical Research ] -> (5b.) [ Action Plan -> Budget Approval -> Operationalisation -> Reporting ], where 5a and 5b run concurrently in decoupled loops.
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Tbc.
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