DarthJon

Literally don't care what she says.

This has nothing to do with anyone's sex life. It's about children making life-altering medical decisions they may come to regret later. Raising that as a legitimate concern is not "transphobic." And considering the growing numbers of people who do have serious regrets and even go through de-transitioning, I would say it's a legitimate concern.

Don't lose sight of who the bad guys are here.

The only system compatible with full liberty is anarchy. But you stated that economic democracy is libertarian, and then proceeded to call for it to be mandated. Mandates are authoritarian, not libertarian.

Mandating it doesn't seem to be consistent with individual liberty, though.

Forgive me for being pragmatic about this, but if this was such a good idea and consistent with the interests of the people, you wouldn't have to mandate it. This is how things would be done.

I understand that employee-owned companies exist (though I think it's rather telling that I haven't heard of any of them) but I thought this was a model for economic policy at the societal level. Those companies all exist within a capitalist economy.

Interesting theory. Does this exist on any large scale anywhere in the world?

Communism is inherently a political/economic ideology. Capitalism is primarily an economic ideology with political implications.

Sorry, by "persisted" I didn't mean to imply that it's the oldest. More that it is surviving where other systems have failed.

No, extreme is the further away an ideology is from centrist/moderate ideologies. At one end of the spectrum is fascism, at the other is communism.

It's been a long time since I've read any of this stuff - do you have a reference for the claim about legal and de facto responsibility?

That being said, I would argue that they are not incompatible but rather that capitalism acts as a constraint on liberty. That being said, it is the economic system in which liberty is maximized relative to any other system. No doubt that's why it has persisted.

Actually, it sounds more like you're dismissing a standard political spectrum model to make communism sound less extreme than it is. Would you feel better if I used the word 'radical' rather than 'extreme'?