Property is only Another Name for Monopoly
Property is only Another Name for Monopoly
https://academic.oup.com/jla/article/9/1/51/3572441
This article presents a new critique of capitalist private property as a form of monopoly. While I disagree with some of the authors' other views, the common ownership mechanism discussed in the article is quite interesting from an anti-authoritarian anti-capitalist perspective. I would be curious to hear the thoughts of other anti-capitalists on the mechanism described
The article kind of lost me on the taxation methods. I agree that private property and its whole conceptualization in a capitalist world is problematic. Simply making people pay tribute to the state as a solution is unoriginal. I am so shocked that nobody has come up other ways to deal with it. Like, say people can't own more than X number of properties at one time? Why is taxation always the solution? It doesn't solve the problem, really. Theoretically, if you can afford to pay the taxes on the properties, you can own all the properties. It might be difficult to do, but somebody would find a way.
While this is sort of a tax, it also has elements of common ownership because it reduces the exclusion power of capital owners due to the mandated transfer. A worker coop that has the funds can take the capital and use it in production. They do not have to negotiate to buy the property. The problem with other rules is that they will have loopholes that the rich will exploit. The revenue can be used to fund a basic income. The entity that receives the revenue can be non-state.