An interesting series of posts on X by Mark Pellegrino:
1) mentioning Jefferson’s name doesn’t suddenly make the concept of no property ‘liberal’ ‘hip’ or ‘freedom’ oriented. The fact is rights are inoperable without property. And rights belong to sovereign individuals as should property…. Not to collectives.
2) in other words they welched. They ditched their creditors… like any common criminal. FYI, Thats not a virtue… it’s also not how a country acquires legit sovereignty. It acquires sovereignty by respecting the sovereignty of its own citizens by codifying rights into law.
3) again. Capitalism didn’t turn into anything. Capitalism was overtaken by statism. (Which is your bag… your ethics); not because of anything peculiar to the nature of capitalism, but because of the mixed moral of Americans. Again, monopolies are a government phenomenon not a market phenomenon.
4) capitalism is anti colonial. And anti imperialism which cannot be said for the world wide ambitions of communism which really does capture states through violent minority political control and/or debt prisoner status. Your Marxist concept of rentor is stupid and ill informed. Clueless even… so I have to wonder what type of job you have and why you can’t seem to excel at it. I must assume your low earner status makes you resentful.
5) capitalists do not traditionally start wars. WW1 was started by the Austria/Hungarian empire and Bismarckian Germany, the latter the paragon of socialist virtue. WW2 was started by statist fascists and commies and imperialist Japanese… IOW’s no capitalist. In both cases capitalists rejected war, were labeled isolationists and forced into conflict by the political class…
I’ll just deal with your first comment cause I’m going to bed: there is no such thing as a collective and no such thing as collective property. The finite nature of reality, the law of identity, the nature and source of rights, make the concept morally nil and void and impracticable in reality. The fact that roads connect communities, or electrical wires cross state and county lines is irrelevant to anyone who understands concepts and principles.
America is not a collective.. especially in the sense commies mean it as a body politic and source of right. It is a group of individuals each with their own unique goals and values that, due to the trader principle, benefits all, but is not the exclusive moral aim of the individual. The survival of the collective is the moral aim of the collectivist. The thriving of the individual is the aim of a capitalist who must create values and exchange them in order to do so.
Public property exists and is the source of a concept called the tragedy of the commons. It’s problematic for multiple reasons and thinking man can discern. IOW’s it shouldn’t exist. And just because Jefferson disagrees with me doesn’t make him right and me wrong. This is an argument from authority… a logical fallacy. Aristotle was the greatest philosopher of all time and thought slavery a natural condition of inferior beings… was he right cause he was Aristotle? Check your premises commie. They suck and lead to bad shit for a reason.
And yes. The ocean and lakes can and should belong to individuals. They wouldn’t be over processed and polluted. As private parks and property are always better maintained. And your moral code is ass. That’s why I criticize it. It sucks and deprives people of life liberty and happiness. Now if you want to be a miserable mediocrity your whole fucking life. Go ahead and do that. But leave everyone else alone with your dead Marxist bullshit.
Mark Pellegrino
