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>It's a moot point to me. I think capitalism is basically an immoral system

>to start with. The Left libertarian system of co-ops and non-ownership of

>business is my preferred system.

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I think your distinction between " Right-libertarianism " and

" Left-libertarianism " is invalid. I have no objection whatsoever to businesses

being managed

democratically or owned by their workers, nor do I have any objection to

such businesses organizing amongst themselves to negotiate " fair " exchanges

based on whatever their own conceptions of fair are rather than market prices.

Forcing businesses to run like this is simply not libertarian. Forcing

businesses to run as they currently are is also not libertarian.

It is my understanding that market socialism usually degenerates, or

regenerates, depending on how you see it, into capitalism, such as what happened

in

the former Yugoslav economy. If we started in such a left-libertarian world

and all businesses were owned by their workers and managed democratically,

what would happen if a business democratically decided to appoint a manager to

manage the operation autocratically? What would happen if the workers sold

their shares to one person or a group of people, or, if they democratically

decided, by majority or consensus, to sell ownership to someone else? Would

this be allowed?

Chris