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willowMar 9, 2025

remind me to stay off twitter

Louise Auguste Tranqui @blarpvs
What exactly is "socialist" about market socialism?

Lei Gong @gonglei89•1d
Distributional outcomes. At minimum a higher floor, ideally flattened distributional range.

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willowMar 9, 2025

at least they’re honest about their love for freedom, equality, property and bentham ;)

alice roberts @alice.dreary.dev

willow context bot:

capital, volume 1, pg 280 - the transformation of money into capital

The sphere of circulation or commodity exchange, within whose boundaries the sale and purchase of labour-power goes on, is in fact a very Eden of the innate rights of man. It is the exclusive realm of Freedom, Equality, Property and Bentham. Freedom, because both buyer and seller of a commodity, let us say of labour-power, are determined only by their own free will. They contract as free persons, who are equal before the law. Their contract is the final result in which their joint will finds a common legal expression.
Equality, because each enters into relation with the other, as with a simple owner of commodities, and they exchange equivalent for equivalent. Property, because each disposes only of what is his own. And Bentham, because each looks only to his own advantage.
The only force bringing them together, and putting them into relation with each other, is the selfishness, the gain and the private interest of each. Each pays heed to himself only, and no one worries about the others. And precisely for that reason, either in accordance with the pre-established harmony of things, or under the auspices of an omniscient providence, they all work together to their mutual advantage, for the common weal, and in the common interest.

March 9, 2025 at 4:10 PM