▲ 497 ▼ Just baffling (lemmy.ml) submitted 1 year ago by jackeroni@lemmy.ml to c/memes@lemmy.ml 138 comments fedilink hide all child comments
[+] Melvin_Ferd@lemmy.world -9 points 1 year ago (4 children) [removed by mod] permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 4 child comments replies: [–] dessalines@lemmy.ml 9 points 1 year ago (1 child) How many books on this topic have you read? Are you aware of the conflicts between liberals and workers, prisoners, women, and colonized people for over 200 years? Do you know the history of the working class movement and its history of conflicts with liberals since the mid 1800s? Any one of us can answer these questions. You clearly can't. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 1 child comment replies: [+] QuoVadisHomines@sh.itjust.works -7 points 1 year ago You read books but do you read current news? Most of the world is still debating if they should be free of the government which is a binary that very much places liberalism on the left. Why are you holding such a Eurocentric perspective in face of the fact that most are not having the anticapitalist vs capitalist discussion you seem to think they are having? permalink fedilink source parent [–] merdaverse@lemmy.zip 7 points 1 year ago (1 child) the right to private property Wow that sounds sooo leftist. I think you're about 150 years late in defining liberalism as "the left" permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 1 child comment replies: [+] Melvin_Ferd@lemmy.world -5 points 1 year ago (1 child) [removed by mod] permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 1 child comment replies: [–] davel@lemmy.ml 6 points 1 year ago Capitalism is right-wing; socialism is left-wing. Private property is not about your toothbrush or house, it’s about private ownership of the means of production, which is what capitalism is founded on. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capitalism Capitalism is an economic system based on the private ownership of the means of production and their use for the purpose of obtaining profit. permalink fedilink source parent load more comments (-1 replies)
[–] dessalines@lemmy.ml 9 points 1 year ago (1 child) How many books on this topic have you read? Are you aware of the conflicts between liberals and workers, prisoners, women, and colonized people for over 200 years? Do you know the history of the working class movement and its history of conflicts with liberals since the mid 1800s? Any one of us can answer these questions. You clearly can't. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 1 child comment replies: [+] QuoVadisHomines@sh.itjust.works -7 points 1 year ago You read books but do you read current news? Most of the world is still debating if they should be free of the government which is a binary that very much places liberalism on the left. Why are you holding such a Eurocentric perspective in face of the fact that most are not having the anticapitalist vs capitalist discussion you seem to think they are having? permalink fedilink source parent
[+] QuoVadisHomines@sh.itjust.works -7 points 1 year ago You read books but do you read current news? Most of the world is still debating if they should be free of the government which is a binary that very much places liberalism on the left. Why are you holding such a Eurocentric perspective in face of the fact that most are not having the anticapitalist vs capitalist discussion you seem to think they are having? permalink fedilink source parent
[–] merdaverse@lemmy.zip 7 points 1 year ago (1 child) the right to private property Wow that sounds sooo leftist. I think you're about 150 years late in defining liberalism as "the left" permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 1 child comment replies: [+] Melvin_Ferd@lemmy.world -5 points 1 year ago (1 child) [removed by mod] permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 1 child comment replies: [–] davel@lemmy.ml 6 points 1 year ago Capitalism is right-wing; socialism is left-wing. Private property is not about your toothbrush or house, it’s about private ownership of the means of production, which is what capitalism is founded on. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capitalism Capitalism is an economic system based on the private ownership of the means of production and their use for the purpose of obtaining profit. permalink fedilink source parent load more comments (-1 replies)
[+] Melvin_Ferd@lemmy.world -5 points 1 year ago (1 child) [removed by mod] permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 1 child comment replies: [–] davel@lemmy.ml 6 points 1 year ago Capitalism is right-wing; socialism is left-wing. Private property is not about your toothbrush or house, it’s about private ownership of the means of production, which is what capitalism is founded on. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capitalism Capitalism is an economic system based on the private ownership of the means of production and their use for the purpose of obtaining profit. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] davel@lemmy.ml 6 points 1 year ago Capitalism is right-wing; socialism is left-wing. Private property is not about your toothbrush or house, it’s about private ownership of the means of production, which is what capitalism is founded on. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capitalism Capitalism is an economic system based on the private ownership of the means of production and their use for the purpose of obtaining profit. permalink fedilink source parent
