• CanniBallistic_Puppy@lemmy.world
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        10 months ago

        Money is always the dictator. If you take it out of the equation, it just gets replaced by power. Not that those two are mutually exclusive…

    • DreamButt@lemmy.world
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      10 months ago

      Pretty much all command economies**

      There are ways to organize a system of labor that have not been explored or are in the infancy of being considered in the world. Many countries are engaging with more and more socialist ideals every day and they are doing so under current forms of democracy. The world is not binary, everything is a sliding scale with tradeoffs

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      10 months ago

      So is this the whataboutism I’ve been hearing so much about? Meme didn’t even mention communism.

      • ben@lemmy.zip
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        10 months ago

        I didn’t know reality was western propaganda, those pesky Americans!

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          10 months ago

          The fact is that you were so brainwashed by the Red Scare that you don’t realize that the reality you were told is all lies.

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          10 months ago

          The truth is somewhere inbetween… not “reality” like you claim it is.

          • ben@lemmy.zip
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            10 months ago

            I’m not sure what in-between there is for “a lot of communist and socialist countries are just as if not more authoritarian than their capitalist counterparts”

            The point being made is that the criticism being made doesn’t apply to capitalism in any way that it wouldn’t also apply to other economic systems.

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            10 months ago

            Nope, the truth is in the left and not the center 😎