For the raita kangs who like to paint Ambedkar as pro capitalism (some even going as far as to call him libertarian) a thread-
//Responding to libertarian lawyers who argued for minimum state intervention to protect liberty, Ambedkar argued that withdrawal of the state may lead to liberty but that liberty is “liberty to the landlords to increase rents, for capitalists to increase hours of work and ++
++reduce rate of wages".
“In an economic system employing armies of workers, producing goods en masse at regular intervals, someone must make rules so that workers will work and the wheels of industry run on," he wrote. “If the state does not do it, the private employer will.++
“In an economic system employing armies of workers, producing goods en masse at regular intervals, someone must make rules so that workers will work and the wheels of industry run on," he wrote. “If the state does not do it, the private employer will.++
++ Life otherwise will become impossible. In other words, what is called liberty from the control of the state is another name for the dictatorship of the private employer."//
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