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[+] -14 points 10 months ago (26 children)

Its all well and good to hate on the Bourgeois until you become one at which point the proletariat are your problem.

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  • [–] 16 points 10 months ago (15 children)

    Its all well and good to hate on serial killers until you become one at which point the victims are your problem.

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  • [+] -10 points 10 months ago (14 children)

    Yeah but being a serial killer doesn't add anything to society. Bourgeois ownership of property and the competition that creates (capitalism) put a man on the moon and given you a better life than the aristocrats the bourgeois overthrew. How many people have serial killers raised out of poverty?

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  • [–] 11 points 10 months ago (1 child)

    Sorry if I'm getting whooshed, are you being sarcastic? NASA is government-run. Feudalism was even more property-based and less democratic than capitalism is.

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  • [+] -10 points 10 months ago

    U clearly have no idea how NASA actually accomplished man in the moon. Most of the rocket and infrastructure was built and designed by private companies being paid by NASA. NASA just did the integration, design, and analysis. Its the perfect example of a socialist policy taking advantage of capitalist industry.

    Capitalism, communism, socialism, and feudalism have nothing to do with democracy. They for the most part only refer to property in how its owned, who owns it, and what is property. Marx says everything that is not a person or a person labour is property owned by the state.

    This is a direct analogue to feudalism and its structure of property ownership. Under feudalism the state owns everything including you, under communism the state owns everything except you. Marx himself comments on the similarity and how that relationship can be leveraged to bring in a communist regime.

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  • [–] 10 points 10 months ago (11 children)

    Ah, the Space Race. Something that was famously only participated in by capitalist countries.

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  • [+] -8 points 10 months ago (10 children)

    The USSR never put a man on the moon. And what your implying here is that the USSR was communism? If so the genocides and mass starvation it caused should be enough evidence against communism.

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  • [–] 4 points 10 months ago (2 children)

    I’m asserting that capitalism didn’t do that on its own. The USSR is not a good example of communism, no, but it’s certainly not capitalist, and if they hadn’t provided competition at every step of the space race, beating the US out most of the time, the US wouldn’t have gotten to the moon.

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  • [–] 4 points 10 months ago (6 children)

    Oh, here we go with the "little black book of communism" bullshit.

    Gods, you guys are so predictable.

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  • [–] -3 points 10 months ago (5 children)

    60million dead people is bullshit hey? That's 10x what Hitler did in the holocaust. Being predictable doesn't change the facts that your supporting and pushing an ideology responsible for 60million dead people. That's literally 10times as bad as supporting Nazism if we are going by human lives taken.

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  • [–] 3 points 10 months ago (3 children)

    We currently produce enough food to feed everyone and the international system is capitalist. Does every death from starvation or malnutrition count as a tick against capitalism for you? What about deaths from diabetes in the US? If not, you should look more into how the numbers you’re citing were generated and see if you still want to spread them. If so, you might find that capitalism has killed more than “communism.”

    Also, just as a nitpick: 6 million Jews died in the holocaust. 13 million people died altogether (not including war casualties).

    I know you feel like we’re on opposite sides here, but I really do just want you to research this a little more, no need to come back afterwards if you don’t want to.

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  • [–] 0 points 10 months ago (2 children)

    I'm counting western capitalism Europe, USA, western aligned Asia pacific nations etc as I think that's a fair comparison to make in the context of communism given I only considered the USSR and not other "communist nations".

    I'm aware of the nitpick I'm purposely presenting technically true facts in a manner most advantageous to my argument (same as any journalist does). I've done plenty of research I even went and read the communist manifesto so I could understand its true intentions (they got the societal diagnosis correct just the treatment is complete bullshit imo).

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  • [–] 3 points 10 months ago (1 child)

    I think we have different definitions of “technically true,” but that’s probably true for a lot of terms. Have a good new year’s, if you celebrate.

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  • [–] 9 points 10 months ago (8 children)

    So as long as the bourgeoise exist, there will always be a problem?

    Sounds like the only solution is to collectively agree to delete the bourgeoise.

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  • [–] -4 points 10 months ago (7 children)

    OK Marx sure. So what do u replace it with? Someone has to "own" ie control all the things and if u just hand it all over to some entity "the state" you have just reinvented aristocracy.

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  • [–] 7 points 10 months ago (6 children)

    Someone has to “own” ie control all the things

    That's an extremely silly statement. Do you really believe in a single global landlord that owns everything that everyone else must pay rent to? If one person owns everything like you say, you just destroyed private ownership.

    You managed to accuse me of being both Marx and a monarchist all while you call to end any private ownership in just one post.

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  • [–] -4 points 10 months ago (5 children)

    That is possibly the worst faith interpretation of my statement. Everything is owned by someone not necessarily the same someone. For instance I own and am thus responsible for my property, someone else is responsible for their property hence everything is owned by someone.

    What's the functional difference between communism and a monarchy? In both cased all property is owned by "the state" and can exercise control over that property however they please. Democracy doesn't work cos the people have no control of any property and thus are completely beholden to the state. Good luck protesting against the government when you have no food, water, means to communicate, and travel. What are u gonna do about the inevitable authoritarian takeover? Die?

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  • [–] 3 points 10 months ago (4 children)

    actually, ownership is a human invention and it is not necessary at all.

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  • [–] -3 points 10 months ago (1 child)

    Ownership is simply the word we use to describe the person who ultimately controls and is thus responsible for any particularly thing. Please describe a system in ownership isn't a thing. The only one I can think of is anarchy until someone finds a gun and announces that everything now belongs to them and that their is nothing u can do about it

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  • [–] 3 points 10 months ago

    anarchy until someone finds a gun and announces that everything now belongs to them and that their is nothing u can do about it

    it is anarchy. your gunman is a despot, and is not part of anarchism.

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