• @[email protected]
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    121 year ago

    Comparing property law under hammurabi with property law as it presently exists is absolutely laughably ridiculous and you know it is. You should take your capitalist apologia elsewhere.

    • NaibofTabr
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      1 year ago

      I have made no apology for capitalism. If this is what you got from what I wrote, then you have trouble with reading comprehension.

      I did not make a comparison between Mesopotamian property law and present property law. My point was that private ownership of property is a function of human society literally as old as recorded history, as well as the idea of legal privileges around property ownership.

      Because the cartoon is based on the premise that these ideas come from capitalism, the entire argument is faulty.

      I’ll quote from my original post:

      I am not arguing that these things are right and good. I am arguing that linking them specifically to capitalism represents a desperately uneducated understanding of human society and history.