The diagram #capitalist liberals don’t want you to see

Capitalists frame the debate about #capitalism as one of consent versus coercion and argue that capitalism is acceptable because workers consent in the legal sense to the labor contract. Democratic theory recognizes a distinction among voluntary contracts i.e. consent to alienate vs. consent to delegate. Capitalists can’t appeal to this distinction because capitalism and political #democracy are on opposite sides

@solarpunk

  • breadsmasher@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    3 months ago

    No, it is a request for someone to define what they understand as a “liberal”, as that term gets bandied about in many different contexts as some sort of boogieman. To have any sort of sensible discussion there needs to be a common understanding.

    Sealioning is a type of trolling or harassment that consists of pursuing people with relentless requests for evidence, often tangential or previously addressed,

    A single questions is “relentless”?

    And, what you have demonstrated instead, is an example of an ad hominem attack. Here, ill even provide you the definition from the dictionary.

    Attacking a person’s character or motivations rather than a position or argument. “Debaters should avoid ad hominem arguments that question their opponents’ motives.”

    OP has used the term “capitalist liberalism”. The right continuously attacks “libs” as being “socialist”. Hence my question as to what OP even means

    • TwiddleTwaddle
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      3 months ago

      You know, that’s fair. I spend most of my time in explicitly leftist spaces, but this isn’t actually one of those. Its not off base at all for you to ask questions like that here. Apologies.