“This is basically communism”
Look inside
Happened due to profit motive
[a lens distorted cat stares at us naively]
https://thebad.website/comic/everything_wrong_about_capitalism_is_communism
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The US surveillance state is communism, you read it here first.
Political literacy.
What a fking chud, its hilarious to see him getting blasted in the comments 🤣
Anon opens a history book.
Sees communism examples.
Looks closer.
It’s an obvious dictatorship with aspects of slavery.
Finds capitalism examples.
Looks closer.
It’s a non-obvious dictatorship with aspects of slavery.
Anon is confused and throws book away.
- "There are not enough good examples for me to believe that something can be good. " - he says.
The fact that communism hasn’t ever worked on a large scale without authoritarianism should tell you something.
Yes, as opposed to all those super democratic capitalist third world countries.
Or the fact that it hasn’t ever worked on a large scale without authoritarianism due to a wildly uneven distribution of resources and capital before communism happened
Communism relies on the government controlling everything to function. It requires some level of authoritarianism.
Communism relies on the government controlling everything to function.
First off, “communism” is a stateless society¹. By definition. That already makes your claim an oxymoron.
You meant “socialism”. Confusing socialism with communism is as silly as confusing capitalism with feudalism. For the same reason — it’s a succession chain: feudalism → capitalism → socialism → communism².
And not even for socialism this is remotely valid. There are multiple ways to implement a post-capitalism society (aka socialism), from full hierarchy to complete self-governance. It depends on the material conditions.
Notes:
- What your typical left-wing anarchist and your typical Marxist call “stateless” is different. However, in this context the difference between “there’s no state at all” and “there’s no state as a tool for the dominant class” isn’t relevant.
- Yeah, I’m oversimplifying matters. But c’mon, the user in question has been clearly fed more propaganda than information. Some didactic oversimplification is fine.
don’t make me tap the sign
bolshevism is not communism
you’re focusing on a single form of government and saying it’s the only way communism could exist when a lot of scholars can’t even agree on if it should exist within the discussion of communism or if it should just be considered socialism, or if its coalescion of authority was extensive enough to just be another example of another capitalist society.
Potato Potato
“this is the future the left wants under COMMIESOCIALMARXISM!”
dystopian picture of current day late-stage-capitalism in the US
Everything wrong about capitalism and communism is human nature.
Nope, it’s the nature of hierarchies and gaps in human perception that happen to line up, not our intrinsic nature. We can build something more than this, it’s just slightly harder to do.
