The public-facing idea of capitalism consists of two utterly irreconcilable facets: voluntary production and exchange, on the one hand, and private ownership, on the other.
We cannot be free—to produce, to exchange, to do *anything at all*—if only some of us own the world and everything in it.
Capitalists own the land under your feet. They own the power to tell you whether you can work, and how to work, and how much of what you produce they will keep for themselves. They own the ideas we produce, our songs and stories. They own our mobility, our communications, our sustenance. We cannot be free if we live only by their permission.