If we look at this in a historical perspective, we have to go back the the Frech revolution. Among the revolutionary the were two groups, the first one were classical liberalists. In classical liberalism we find the idea of the free market, whcih in time became capitalism. The other group were liberalists except that they ment that the means of producion should be divided equaly among the people to ensure economical equality and prevent exploitasion by the state, socialists. That is were the divde comes from, however today the these two philosofies have morphed so that they are quite differnt, but the central question remains, who should own the resoucres
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