Quotation of the Day…

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… is from page 95 of Georgetown University philosopher Jason Brennan’s excellent 2014 book, Why Not Capitalism?:

There is an essential asymmetry in the capitalist and the socialist visions of utopia. Capitalists allow socialism, but socialists forbid capitalism. Capitalism permits people to own property individually, but it also permits them to own it collectively. In contrast, socialism forbids people from owning property individually, and only allows them to own it collectively. A capitalist utopia would allow people to form communes, but a socialist utopia would forbid [an individual] from owning a factory by herself.