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[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Does this imply communism wouldn't extract resources?

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

That's what I was wondering. Capitalists didn't invent exploitation of nature, it just so happened that its worldwide adoption coincided with unprecedented technological advances. There's quite a few examples of historical societies that exploited nature as much as they could and suffered for it.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Businesses under capitalism aren't required to pay for the externalities of their decisions. In a democratic economy, the people affected by corporate decisions would have a say in those decisions. It's reasonable to assume that people want to breathe clean air and continue to have food and water, so they'd support policies that do that.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

Sure, but none of the economies we actually have (or recently had) work like that.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Someone had better have a communist revolution so we do have one like that, then.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago

Judging by the communist revolutions we had so far, I'm not holding my breath for that.