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I am an old-school democratic socialist in the sense that I believe the free market generates better outcomes than planned economies right up to the point at which Adam Smith and David Ricardo said they absolutely don't and instead become massive social burdens.

Decades upon decades of not being properly asked about cartels and land-squatters. (Obviously I am also a Georgist.)

I am free-market up to cartels and monopolies, I understand that wages actually tend under free markets towards starvation level unless held upwards by law, it is good to have half your head in the 1700s to see what you find offensive by those standards.

I am actually lazily not a Marxist, I just start with 18th century capitalism — fucking Mandeville, you terrible bastard — and think every hard smart brake on that model that showed up along the way is fucking right and needs to be accommodated.