The Capitalist Economics Of Drug Dealing

[which doctor]

So, the question for the topic is Are drug dealers capitalists?

In my opinion, they are.

Some say that they aren't because it's an underground market. I think they are. They are profitting from it right? So they must be overcharging their customers. Also, with some drugs like heroine and cocaine that are harvested far away, the working conditions can come into question.

So, what do you think?

[OneBrickOneVoice]

Drug dealers are extremly capitalist. Have you seen how wealthy the drug lords can get off dealing? It's upsurd to claim anything else. Of course they may hate capitalism for putting them in poverty for most of their life and banning the drugs they sell but wheter they realize or not, they're activly engaging in capitalist activity.

[JC1]

Drug Dealers are usualy petit-bourgoise. They don't exploit drug users, however.
LTV is not applicable to exchange, only to production, buddy.

[JC1]

Drug Dealers are usualy petit-bourgoise. They don't exploit drug users, however.
LTV is not applicable to exchange, only to production, buddy.

[JC1]

Drug Dealers are usualy petit-bourgoise. They don't exploit drug users, however.
LTV is not applicable to exchange, only to production, buddy.

[Guest1]

Well, depends. You have the runners and the guys in the labs, who are generally lumpenproles or just plain proles, you have the small pot growers who are generally petty-bourgeois, and you have the big time lords who are just plain capitalist.

It's really not one class.

[Guest1]

Well, depends. You have the runners and the guys in the labs, who are generally lumpenproles or just plain proles, you have the small pot growers who are generally petty-bourgeois, and you have the big time lords who are just plain capitalist.

It's really not one class.

[Guest1]

Well, depends. You have the runners and the guys in the labs, who are generally lumpenproles or just plain proles, you have the small pot growers who are generally petty-bourgeois, and you have the big time lords who are just plain capitalist.

It's really not one class.

[Janus]

The smaller drug dealers are more or less go-betweens and aren't true capitalists. However, the drug kingpins could defnitely be considered to be bourgeois as they are able to purchase and control other industries as well.

[Janus]

The smaller drug dealers are more or less go-betweens and aren't true capitalists. However, the drug kingpins could defnitely be considered to be bourgeois as they are able to purchase and control other industries as well.

[Janus]

The smaller drug dealers are more or less go-betweens and aren't true capitalists. However, the drug kingpins could defnitely be considered to be bourgeois as they are able to purchase and control other industries as well.

[apathy maybe]

Sure the drug market is mainly capitalist. It is just like any other market, except the state structures obstinately disapprove of it (another reason to think that the state exists independently of the economic system).

Like other "black market" markets the people involved have varying amounts of power. You find powerful people who can kill or have killed others, you find people who exist at the bottom of the hierarchy.

And like in other industries the producers are often quite exploited. An example, the poppies from Afghanistan that make their way to Europe as Heroin; the farmers are payed maybe a few thousands dollars a kilogram, where as the final product can be sold for millions.

[apathy maybe]

Sure the drug market is mainly capitalist. It is just like any other market, except the state structures obstinately disapprove of it (another reason to think that the state exists independently of the economic system).

Like other "black market" markets the people involved have varying amounts of power. You find powerful people who can kill or have killed others, you find people who exist at the bottom of the hierarchy.

And like in other industries the producers are often quite exploited. An example, the poppies from Afghanistan that make their way to Europe as Heroin; the farmers are payed maybe a few thousands dollars a kilogram, where as the final product can be sold for millions.

[apathy maybe]

Sure the drug market is mainly capitalist. It is just like any other market, except the state structures obstinately disapprove of it (another reason to think that the state exists independently of the economic system).

Like other "black market" markets the people involved have varying amounts of power. You find powerful people who can kill or have killed others, you find people who exist at the bottom of the hierarchy.

And like in other industries the producers are often quite exploited. An example, the poppies from Afghanistan that make their way to Europe as Heroin; the farmers are payed maybe a few thousands dollars a kilogram, where as the final product can be sold for millions.