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Yes, capitalism enables exploitation by allowing people who own capital to decide working conditions for people who do not. This is why exploitation is seen everywhere capitalism has ever been tried. I've also gave you a concrete example contrasting communism in USSR and the transition to capitalism along with all the horrors that followed. You just proceeded to ignore that.
People deciding working conditions for others is not absent from all other systems.
@rah @yogthos That's literally the system Americans live under right now. It would be best if workers had a say in the place they spend most of their waking hours in!
Which is an argument nobody made here.
In response to my comment asserting
you stated
which appears to be you attempting to make that argument.
No, the argument being made is that having a handful of oligarchs who own capital make such decisions leads to exploitation. People who have been appointed democratically by the people to represent them deciding such things is a completely different matter. A government in a communist society represents the people, and the means of production are publicly owned by the people. That's what prevents exploitation that capitalism enables by allowing people to rule over others.
You've introduce a new term here, "leads to". The discussion we've been having was about whether it is valid to say that capitalism "enables" exploitation, not "leads to". They're not the same thing.
It's clear from this change in your wording and from this discussion in general that you're being loose in your use of terminology. We're having a discussion about whether a particular term is used in a valid way so being loose in the use of terminology completely obviates the discussion.
I think the problem is that you don't want to have a discussion about the use of the word "enable", you want to rage against capitalism.
Capitalism isn't what enables exploitation.
Take care.