Socialist Dogma
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Socialist Dogma

  1. Exploitation theories - the belief that the voluntary exchange of labor time for money or goods is intrinsically wrong.
  2. Erroneous beliefs about capitalism, e.g.
    1. Straw man definition such that a society with free markets and sticky property is intrinsically authoritarian, or that libertarian or stateless capitalism cannot exist.
    2. Capitalism concentrates wealth myth that free market stateless capitalism would be a centralizing force which concentrates wealth. Refuted in this article.
    3. All corporations are bad myth that all corporations are crony corporations. In fact, the vast majority are market corporations. Only a small minority can be parasites on society or it would kill the host. In short, socialists cannot tell a market corporation from a political corporation, an Apple from a Raytheon.
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    5. All industries become monopolies myth that all firms must necessarily become monopolies. Many socialists erroneously think that economies of scale are infinite. Educated people know that economies of scale is a "U" shaped function, and at some point getting bigger reduces efficiency.
    6. Capitalism leads to a State myth claims that stateless capitalism has intrinsic characteristics that lead to the creation of a State. No socialist has ever given a convincing invisible hand process to show this. Philosopher Robert Nozick tried and failed to demonstrate one.
  3. Anti-hierarchy beliefs - claims that voluntary hierarchical arrangements are somehow bad as such.
  4. Fake starvation fallacy - the belief that people are forced to work because of imminent starvation. Usually tweeted by latte-sipping communists who have never been hungry in their lives, about developed countries with virtually zero starvation rates.
  5. Aggression by man equals natural constraints - the belief that being forced to eat and sleep in order to live is ethically equivalent to being forced with violence by another person.
  6. Wishing away scarcity - In a communist/socialist society, there would be no scarcity, but in a capitalist society, there is always extreme scarcity.
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  8. Mankind is divided into competing classes, and everyone in any given class has specific and predictable interests. - In reality, economic class plays little part in life, people’s interests are determined by many factors, most of which have nothing to do with class, and competition within a class is probably more important than competition between classes.
  9. Property norm utopianism - the belief that everyone will embrace [their preferred property norms] and/or that no one (absent a State) would choose [the opposing property norms.]
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Socialist Dogma

  1. Exploitation theories - the belief that the voluntary exchange of labor time for money or goods is intrinsically wrong.
  2. Erroneous beliefs about capitalism, e.g.
    1. Straw man definition such that a society with free markets and sticky property is intrinsically authoritarian, or that libertarian or stateless capitalism cannot exist.
    2. Capitalism concentrates wealth myth that free market stateless capitalism would be a centralizing force which concentrates wealth. Refuted in this article.
    3. All corporations are bad myth that all corporations are crony corporations. In fact, the vast majority are market corporations. Only a small minority can be parasites on society or it would kill the host. In short, socialists cannot tell a market corporation from a political corporation, an Apple from a Raytheon.
    4. economyscale
    5. All industries become monopolies myth that all firms must necessarily become monopolies. Many socialists erroneously think that economies of scale are infinite. Educated people know that economies of scale is a "U" shaped function, and at some point getting bigger reduces efficiency.
    6. Capitalism leads to a State myth claims that stateless capitalism has intrinsic characteristics that lead to the creation of a State. No socialist has ever given a convincing invisible hand process to show this. Philosopher Robert Nozick tried and failed to demonstrate one.
  3. Anti-hierarchy beliefs - claims that voluntary hierarchical arrangements are somehow bad as such.
  4. Fake starvation fallacy - the belief that people are forced to work because of imminent starvation. Usually tweeted by latte-sipping communists who have never been hungry in their lives, about developed countries with virtually zero starvation rates.
  5. Aggression by man equals natural constraints - the belief that being forced to eat and sleep in order to live is ethically equivalent to being forced with violence by another person.
  6. Wishing away scarcity - In a communist/socialist society, there would be no scarcity, but in a capitalist society, there is always extreme scarcity.
  7. SocialistUtopia02
  8. Mankind is divided into competing classes, and everyone in any given class has specific and predictable interests. - In reality, economic class plays little part in life, people’s interests are determined by many factors, most of which have nothing to do with class, and competition within a class is probably more important than competition between classes.
  9. Property norm utopianism - the belief that everyone will embrace [their preferred property norms] and/or that no one (absent a State) would choose [the opposing property norms.]
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