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Does this imply communism wouldn't extract resources?
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That's what I was wondering. Capitalists didn't invent exploitation of nature, it just so happened that its worldwide adoption coincided with unprecedented technological advances. There's quite a few examples of historical societies that exploited nature as much as they could and suffered for it.
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Businesses under capitalism aren't required to pay for the externalities of their decisions. In a democratic economy, the people affected by corporate decisions would have a say in those decisions. It's reasonable to assume that people want to breathe clean air and continue to have food and water, so they'd support policies that do that.
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Sure, but none of the economies we actually have (or recently had) work like that.
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Someone had better have a communist revolution so we do have one like that, then.
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Judging by the communist revolutions we had so far, I'm not holding my breath for that.
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