Memes

Oh, I've somehow remembered that weird period when I was kinda leftist. (Usually I'm ancap.)

Not because I stopped believing that people are not born equal or that people deserve and need different things, and that voluntarism is good, but because evolutionary mechanisms, which are one of the main arguments in favor of markets, invisible hands, bootstraps and such, are skewed by inheritance and starting with different base.

This led me to believe that the Marxist division of private property and "personal" property (doesn't sound right in English, private seems more personal than "personal", while it's less in Russian), where the latter was what formally existed in USSR and the former was some bad, bad capitalist concept, has the right to exist.

The former shouldn't be inherited or gifted. The latter is complete property.

This would kinda make sense by removing generational wealth, but there'd be a question of criteria separating these two things. I guess it would involve the concept of "means of production" and land and resources would be something that can't be personal property. But it'd be all a question of amounts anyway.

And then there's a question of whether such a society will or will not be eaten by another, where not only wealth is accumulated by clans, but also sometimes knowledge of power.

EDIT: It feels so good to put the A-word in any comment involving politics. You just know that every fool out there won't think further. It's as if you had a dam defending your little cozy town from sewage sea around.