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[–] [email protected] 50 points 11 months ago (1 children)

i am going to find whatever guy invented the "communism is bad because [describe capitalism]" trope and beat him to death with my bare hands

[–] [email protected] 30 points 11 months ago

You don't have to be coy. Murray Rothbard, Milton Friedman, and Ludwig von Mises are well known historical figures.

[–] [email protected] 47 points 11 months ago (1 children)

the level of red scare propaganda is insane, I feel like a US anti-communist from 1950 would be able to give a more accurate description of communism than most US anti-communist today

[–] [email protected] 25 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

Back then Communism was real and new for a large part of the working class. So the anti-communists had to either attack it indirectly or just continue deflecting criticism of classical liberal ideology and come up with propaganda that used the philosophical and economic predecessors to Marx, the ones he directly refuted, to craft an ideology that sounded kinda like communism, but convinced you that you were the center of the economic universe instead of your class

Now you just make up literally anything and shut down any criticism of your lies.

[–] [email protected] 40 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Communism is when bad business exists. Capitalism is when based business exists. smuglord

[–] [email protected] 29 points 11 months ago

You know you're in a Communist Hellhole when you are a poor man struggling to survive under a system that siphons away your surplus labor.

You know you're in a Capitalist Utopia when you are a rich man accumulating enormous fortunes from the surplus value of your private holdings.

[–] [email protected] 31 points 11 months ago (1 children)

I saw a guy say that Parasite wasn’t a critique on capitalism, but “human nature” and “class culture” and that humans are just greedy and conniving.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

if you asked this person to define capitalism they'd probably say some version of "capitalism is when there are markets"

[–] [email protected] 27 points 11 months ago

communism is when capitalism

[–] [email protected] 23 points 11 months ago (1 children)
[–] drcobaltjedi 1 points 11 months ago

I'm really glad everyone there tore the OP a new one

[–] [email protected] 20 points 11 months ago (1 children)

So when mega corporations control everything thats communism huh ? Interesting

[–] [email protected] 6 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

I just switched my cats' food because I found out Nestle, a chocolate company, owns it but sure.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

Gommunism is when state capitalism so when the state gets fully replaced by corporations then that's communism

Check mate PeoplesRepublicOfWalmart Non Believers

[–] [email protected] 17 points 11 months ago

"it's not real capitalism, it corporatism (which is fascism and fascism is a leftist ideology)" smuglord brainworms

[–] [email protected] 16 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Most politically literate g*mer, I wonder what they think ”state owned businesses” even are.

If anything, Outer Worlds was extremely LIB since the so-called good ending doesn't involve getting rid of the corporations.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 11 months ago

The Outer Worlds teaches you that the solution is always in the middle, and that compromise is the most important thing. Being 'extreme' in your response always gets you a worse ending. The solution to all of the evil corporations is to empower a "good" corporation instead. It's such a fucking liberal game.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 11 months ago

least propagandized burger

Death to America