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[–] [email protected] 37 points 7 months ago (37 children)

Do the people saying that communism is bad think capitalism is good?

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[–] [email protected] 12 points 7 months ago (18 children)

you knoe there isn't only 2 choices right? Thay can both have good and bad sides. Maybe try some mix of it fisrt

[–] [email protected] 12 points 7 months ago (2 children)

Dialectical Materialism. Right now, they are. You either work towards communism or capitalism moves towards consolidation of capital. Those are your choices.

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[–] [email protected] 29 points 7 months ago (14 children)

I was in my early 20s when the Soviet occupation collapsed here, the victims here were everyone not high up in the party.

Sure, capitalism fucking sucks but pretending the USSR was anything other than just bourgeoisie rule is delusional. The oligarchs were just called the communist party then.

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[–] [email protected] 26 points 7 months ago (5 children)
[–] [email protected] 25 points 7 months ago (7 children)

People are starving every damn day under Capitalism and there is no famine going on. This isn't the dunk you think it is.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 7 months ago (1 children)

No it isn't, but it does highlight the main issue:

Communism would work if it weren't for people trying to co-opt it for power

Fully Automated Luxury Space Communism is the end goal (since, it being automated, means there should effectively be no way to hijack it), but we ain't getting there for a long time. Let's go for socialism first and work from there

[–] [email protected] 11 points 7 months ago (11 children)

Communism would work if it weren't for people trying to co-opt it for power

As long as there exists a way to gain power over others, someone will do it. That's just the reality of our nature, unfortunately.

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[–] [email protected] 15 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

Those famines happened every 10 years before communism, they happened ONCE during in each location and not again since.

In the meantime capitalism had that death total due to forced starvation every 7 years on average.

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[–] [email protected] 23 points 7 months ago (1 children)
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[–] [email protected] 16 points 7 months ago (27 children)

Also victims of communism: anyone aged 1-99 who happens to be the wrong family, who practices wrong think, who has family members who practice wrong think, who have an opinion, who like to be different, and I can go on for a while....

People like you should maybe watch 'the chekist". Once you're done and not crawled up in fetal position while crying maybe you can think for a little bit about what it is that you really want.

Seriously, you tankie types are nauseatingly naïeve.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 7 months ago (1 children)

That's just regular authoritarian statism, tribalism and human herd behaviour.

Anyone unfortunate enough to have lived through high school knows how dangerous the little human empires are.

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[–] [email protected] 15 points 7 months ago (2 children)
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[–] [email protected] 13 points 7 months ago

Let's see: Communism A system of government where the country's wealth is concentrated into a small, ruling class of billionaires, who use the media they own to keep the lower classes fighting with each other while they . . . the rich . . . run off with all the farking money.

Oh wait. that's capitalism. I don't know how I got those two systems confused.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 7 months ago

Without regard for the political content (which I agree with), this is a very bad and unfunny meme.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 7 months ago (20 children)

I'm pretty sure the leftcommunists and anarchists and worker councils requesting for power to be really handed to the soviets which were purged by Lenin and Trotsky weren't actually landlords. But you never know, people from .ml may think people unwilling to obey the bolsheviks get labeled landlords too.

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 7 months ago (1 children)

I don't disagree but this meme is ass lmao

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