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Originally Posted by The One and Only...
Derrida, one must first understand that according to Randian philosophy, the capitalists did not initiate force because they own the land and did not force the lower class to work for them. As written by some extreme libertarians, one has "the right to die of hunger".
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I'm not calling into doubt your knowledge of Objectivism, but there is indeed a force used in the aquisition of land. Keep in mind that for most of human history land was used on a strictly communal basis- the concept of land as property was foreign to most of Europe up until the emergence of feudalism sometime during the late Roman Empire. The workers are indeed forced to work for the capitalists because they lack both land and viable skills (the artisan class, which once constituted a significant portion of european society died out rather quickly following industrialization and the emergence of a capitalist order)
The "right to starvation" is a self-negating logical fallacy. Anyone who speaks of "rights" seriously must surely recognize the right of man to arrive at an end through his own devices, not because he refuses to cede his most basic human nature as a producer of objects to the machinations of capital.