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uh---you know, loquitor, not only is that statement arbitrary, but it's not even any fun to think about.
there are social and economic classes. your liberty-carrying economic order produces and reproduces a brutally stratified class system. it has been like this for 150 years--blah blah blah liberty while in the real world, there's only liberty for a few and the rest are just debris--extra people--but hierarchy is "natural"---so in the end, who gives a shit.
and so long as there is liberty for a few, there will always be an even smaller set willing to defend that liberty-for-some and to repeat in that defense the wholesale erasure of the social reality that ideology has wrought.
so you think about "liberty" for a few and i'll think about what capitalism does as a social formation: you can have fun, i'll do what i do and there we have it.
i'm not even going to get started on the characterization of socialism.
it's a waste of my time.
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