• phoenixz@lemmy.ca
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    2 months ago

    Also victims of communism: anyone aged 1-99 who happens to be the wrong family, who practices wrong think, who has family members who practice wrong think, who have an opinion, who like to be different, and I can go on for a while…

    People like you should maybe watch 'the chekist". Once you’re done and not crawled up in fetal position while crying maybe you can think for a little bit about what it is that you really want.

    Seriously, you tankie types are nauseatingly naïeve.

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      2 months ago

      That’s just regular authoritarian statism, tribalism and human herd behaviour.

      Anyone unfortunate enough to have lived through high school knows how dangerous the little human empires are.

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        2 months ago

        Yeha, I could also point far right authoritarian governments and say that capitalism is bad… But that would be stupid.

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      2 months ago

      Somehow I assume you don’t associate capitalism with chattel slavery and apartheid. But you do associate corrupt authoritarianism with economics when it is system that you don’t like.

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        2 months ago

        Slaves are e human capital. So by definition weren’t plantations capitalist?

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          2 months ago

          I think they are very much capitalist. And then surely the Civil War that poors fought on plantation owners’ behalf should also be blamed on capitalism?

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        26 days ago

        What is it with people here thinking that earning a wage is slavery? That requires either a complete lack of understanding what slavery or just some serious impressive mental gymnastics.

        I associate corrupt authoritarianism with communism because it’s an inevitable outcome. Communism only works of you remove individual freedoms and force people into it. This, by design, requires a dictatorship. Dictatorships foster corruption because you can’t have transparency.

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      2 months ago

      Rent seeking behavior is wrongthink. Being Royalty is practicing wrongthink. Communism is built on Critical Theory making criticism of society its bedrock. I dont consume propaganda, I try to stick to primary sources as close as possible and make my own.

      Seriously you Capitalist Apologists are so brainwashed by literal Cold War Propaganda its pathetic.