LRpo,icy

Left Robardism

 I am against the idea that government regulation helps to eliminate or mitigate oppression by the big corporations since I believe the state is the source of the problem it says to solve.

I don’t agree with the view that the Gilded Age was a Laissez-Faire period where the state did not have interference and where the free markets ran the world. The Gilded Age was marked by huge state privilege to selected capital owners and corporations

These state benefits came in ways such as tax breaks, subsidies, or even direct monopolies on certain industries, even though there were certain big businesses at the time which didn't get privileges from the government.

I believe that these types of corporations which the state benefited with more or less largesse should be allowed to be seized by their workers (or third parties) to eliminate state benefits to companies

I support the seizure of "private" property through the homestead principle since that type of property is derived from theft (i.e subsidies funded by taxes) it thus is not legitimately owned, and thus the rightful owners are the ones who apply the labor to said illegitimate property. 

I feel that property that was previously stolen by the government legitimizes the seizure of this property. 

Like, if the state built a college with money from tax payers, applying my homesteading principle, the college is rightfully the property of those who had been stolen. However, since it's not easy to find out who the university is going to be given to (since it's not stolen from a precise individual), then I feel it's rightfully the property of the workers who by mixing their labor with the facilities have claimed this illegitimate property. 

We should consider though, that while they are to be rightfully property of those workers who applied their labor,  they are, to an extent, beneficiaries of the government. Thus the second group which can be selected for this ownership are the students themselves who lost their money paying for the maintainance of this ‘ill gotten’ property and the payment of the faculty.

This can be applied like for companies which have benefited from the robbery directly like colleges that get 2/3 of their income from the state. This would also legitimizes the seizure of those colleges by their workers, since a significant part of the benefit of that comes from stolen property. It’s only just that, still applying my homestead principle, the college is seized by the workers. This slow reduction of the state would eventually hopefully lead to a stateless society led by market forces and private property.