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