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The police are the ones who are practically preventing the redistribution of the wealth.

Without them, 1/30th of the vacant residential stock in the US would be filled with 100% of the homeless people in the US, for example. (There are approximately 35x as many vacant houses/apartments in the US as there are homeless.)

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...until the major REITs and large private landlord corps hire private security to kick them out, with extreme violent prejudice to send a message, because who're you gonna call to stop them from brutal and unlawful eviction anyway, once you get rid of the police? It's not like the homeless can afford attorneys for eviction court.

Exactly. If you get rid of the police, the wealthy elite will just hire thugs to protect their stuff.

> The police are the ones who are practically preventing the redistribution of the wealth.

Policing prevents, and makes possible, all sorts of things. It is a function of law. By abolishing policing you throw out the baby (the law) with the bathwater (laws that facilitate the concentration of wealth).

Please don't confusing abolishing police with abolishing policing.

Calling a random member of society to do entirely untrained policing in the US would oftentimes result in better outcomes than the current police in the US:

https://lawandcrime.com/crime/outrage-flows-after-prosecutor...

Would you eliminate private property? Or are you suggesting something different?

Yes, both anarchists and socalists share a desire to abolish private property. The major differences are in their strategy and transition states.

Yes. I don't understand why, in the case of socialists, do they believe that the gobernment can manage wealth and resources better than private owners.

And regarding anarchists, I don't understand how would they distribute scarce resources.

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