Semantics, Cooperatives, Marx, and More

A response to Jonathan Church

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Here on Arc Digital, Jonathan Church and I have been debating socialism, capitalism, and human nature. In my initial entry, I challenged the thesis that human nature—with its propensity toward self-interestedness, selfishness, and even cruelty—discredits socialism. I argued that socialism is not incompatible with human nature. Church, who is an…