A good portion of the modern western far-left strongly believes in the mythical Maxist-Communism. They argue that the fruit of the labor of the workers belongs to the workers themselves, not to greedy rich obese monocle-wearing moustache-twirling suspender-snapping capitalist CEOs who shamelessly and greedily exploit the workers to get even richer while giving the workers themselves an absolute pittance. The CEOs are swimming in money, while the exploited workers have to live with minimum wage. The most radical of these ideologues advocate for a workers' revolt in every company, a complete takeover, where the rich CEOs are kicked out and the workers steal the company for themselves (regardless of who actually invested, built and created the company and, thus, legally owns it). I'm not even exaggerating. (They might not literally use the word "steal" because it has a negative connotation, but it's effectively what they are saying.)
The thing is: They talk the talk, but they are not willing to walk the walk.
You see, the beauty of a free capitalist system is that they can create the perfect utopian Marxist-Communist company if they want, if they really want it! A company where the workers own the company equally, and share everything equally. There's literally nothing to stop them from doing so. That's the beauty of freedom: You can run your own company as you want, pay any salaries you want (barring some minimum wage legislation), distribute the ownership of the company as you want. If you want an equally shared ownership of a company, you can do that! That's a perfectly valid option in this horrendous free-market capitalist system of ours. There's literally nothing stopping you from doing so.
But they don't do that. They never advocate for creating new companies that use the form of shared ownership they want, where every single worker/owner gets the same profits. They always advocate for taking over (ie. stealing) existing companies from their owners. There's nothing stopping them from creating their own companies and run them as they want, yet they don't do that.
And why not?
Well, that's where the conspiracy theories kick in. Ask any such Marxist-Communist activist preaching the wonders of equal ownership, and he'll likely come up with some completely outlandish conspiracy theory about why that's not possible. Something like banks being in a huge conspiracy to stop such companies from existing by not giving loans and refusing business with them. With zero evidence, of course. (And why would a bank even care how a company is run? They just provide banking services, including giving loans. They don't care how you share the ownership of your company. Why would they care?)
Of course the real reason is that Marxist-Communism does not create and build, it only steals and destroys. It's based on hostile takeovers, stealing people's property, and quite quickly running that property to the ground due to mismanagement and incompetence. Even in the extremely few cases where some of them have tried to create such a company, even on a very small scale, almost invariably it has quite quickly failed. But not because the banks or the government are in a huge conspiracy to destroy them, but because of mismanagement, incompetence, laziness, lack of motivation, and for the simple reason that the idea just doesn't work.
The idea might work, barely, in absolutely minimalist companies that have 2 or 3 workers at most (and even those tend to fail at a quite significant rate, unless the two guys are really competent at what they do). Anything bigger than that, and it just doesn't.
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