This article outlines the contradictions of authoritarian or capitalism, or the ways in which capitalists contradict their own values. As such, this article takes private property rights, markets and corporations for granted. Even if we as libertarian socialists have our own critiques of these ideas.
General Contradictions
Property Rights
- Capitalists often assert their belief in private property rights, that it's morally unacceptable to violate these and steal from people or coerce them into things. Despite this, history is filled with examples of capitalists contradicting their own principles.
- Capitalist countries like Australia, Brazil, Canada, Finland, Mexico, New Zealand, Norway, Sweden and the United States regularly see corporations and the state working to violate the property rights of indigenous communities to make way for development and natural resource extraction. (Specific details are available on each countries page)
- Wage theft is an epidemic in capitalist countries despite it being illegal in all of them. In the USA and Australia, it is the most common kind of theft.