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      It’s because when the current system is unsustainable people start to promote other ideas.

      I get that you need to infantilize the position to stay so flippant but unfortunately for you it’s more childish to resort to insults when you can’t come up with any other response but still feel the need to say something.

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        The current system is entirely sustainable. It does need reforms, but a regulated market economy combined with strong social welfare programmes is the best economic system we’ve come up with so far, by a very large margin. Planned economies were attempted, they universally failed.

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      “It’s communist propaganda to point out the vast inequality that continues to worsen.”

      No you’re right, everything is just peachy.

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      I think it’s angry people who have no idea what living under communism is like giving up on asking nicely for a socialist reforms.

      Things are getting pretty bad in the US. Anger at the inequality is building. And for a few people they are angry enough to buy into the batshit idea that a “dictatorship of the proletariat” would be easier on them then the current system.

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      this argument is so obnoxious, like how old do you think Lenin is? Castro? Ho Chi Minh? Marx? where does this notion that communists are all young come from? There are at least 5 communists over 70 years old in my local organizing circle

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      Lemmy is A developed by Marxist Leninist B through it’s structure and the activity pub standard it is way more appalling to Leftists than other social media platforms and C Cyberghost loves for some reason to post (mostly tankie) propaganda into this meme channel. I mean this one is a good meme many others are not

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      Your on .ml if you don’t want to see a bunch of communists pointing you may want to go on .world

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    If your idea of revolution includes “burn it down and sort it out later” you’re part of the problem. If you cannot describe in detail good enough for implementation how to create a functional replacement you will end up as one of the dozens of failed dictator communist states as power is seized by whoever manages to get their people in the door with guns first.

    In America, both political parties have extremists willing to do that. Neither of them I want in power.

    Fixing what we have is the better solution, as the northern European socialist states have made clear. But grassroots political activism and actual plans for governance are hard, and rioting with no plan is fun/easy.

    Go back to class, your homework is due.

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    Congratulations! This is officially the post that made me decide to go back to Reddit.

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      Eh, I dunno how I feel about simplyfing communism to be representative of all leftist beliefs. Moreover, it’s still less cringe than spelling out how an acronym sounds. This isn’t elementary school.

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      Glorious people’s republic understands the value of child labor. Filthy capitalist America only allows child labor in a few states. They will never be able to catch up to productivity of glorious people’s republic.