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[–] Noughmad 40 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (35 children)

Market != Capitalism. You can have a free market without capitalism, and capitalism without a free market.

The hexbears will attack me for saying that a regulated free market is good and a planned economy is bad. The others will attack me for saying that capitalism is bad and that we should have market socialism instead. But if we can't have that, a capitalist free market has proven much less bad than any planned economy, as long as it's regulated enough that it stays free.

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[–] [email protected] 39 points 1 year ago (27 children)

middle class is an illusion

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[–] [email protected] 38 points 1 year ago

All great social media does. The secret is that reality favors the progressive left

[–] [email protected] 38 points 1 year ago (12 children)

I thought left also meant protection against unregulated markets? Without regulations it is just going to be capitalismplusplus.

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[–] [email protected] 36 points 1 year ago

Good, we could use it more left though

[–] [email protected] 36 points 1 year ago (17 children)

I just really dislike the whole left/right tribalism. Politics is a lot more complex than left/right and just marking someone as either just increases polarisation...

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[–] [email protected] 36 points 1 year ago (12 children)

Quick, genuine question because I don't know: What does the "ml" in [email protected] stand for? I thought it was for Marxist-Leninist but I'm actually not sure about that

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[–] Decompose 34 points 1 year ago (31 children)

"Uncorrupt government"

This is as delusional as anyone can get.

A wise man said it all once: "Power corrupts, and absolute power corrupts absolutely."

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