Capitalism and Coercion - What's the Difference?

Capitalists don't oppose violence or coercion, so long as that coercion doesn't violate the moral entitlement prong. But of course, socialists agree that we shouldn't take things from people when people are morally entitled to those things,. That's just a tautology. So the real disagreement between capitalists and socialists has nothing to do with violence, proercon, or coercion, proer con. It just comes down to what property people have a moral right to. And appeals to coercion do nothing to settle that question. Therefore, appeals to coercion are simply misleading and don't really do much argumentative work at all. Right? Am.

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