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OurToothbrush, to memes in If you're feeling left out it's probably because you defend billionaires who would mince you into fertilizer

That is less efficient and you’ll eventually just end up with a state that way.

OurToothbrush, to memes in Sure. Why not. Anything goes.

Fascism doesn’t emphasize economics, it’s a minor point in the ideology.

Their rhetoric maybe. I’ve studied fascism, in depth. Fascism absolutely is primarily class warfare waged by the petite bourgeoisie and precarious haut bourgeoisie and has common economic characteristics. A good primer on this would be “Economy and Class structure of German Fascism” It is a quick read, <200 pages.

North Korea is authoritarian, ultranationalist, ultra militaristic, it’s run by a dictatorial leader, it is centralized autocracy, the government does forcibly suppress opposition, the government does pump out propaganda telling its citizens that subordination of individual interests for the perceived good of the nation is a must, and so on.

Are we just uncritically repeating the talking points of a country that killed 20 percent of Koreans in order to protect the puppet dictatorship riddled with former colonial Japanese oppressors they installed in the South? That claims the North invaded while their puppet dictatorship was busy slaughtering 10s of thousands of pro democracy protestors?

The DPRK literally has had workplace management elected by the workers since 1961 and you’re accusing them of being undemocratic. Imagine how different your life would be if you chose your own management, and there was no owner to leech off of you.

OurToothbrush, to memes in They are quite different.

You did a typo i think

OurToothbrush, to memes in He'll be the death of us all.

And if you only treat symptoms, what happens?

Also no, in many cases you do not have to treat symptoms, and it can be damaging to do so. It’s not a good extension of the metaphor.

OurToothbrush, to memes in Just gotta work it in somehow.

I’ll say it again: I’m talking about tightly regulated capitalism with strong socialist policies.

You cannot have private ownership of the means of production and also worker control of the means of production.

When you say capitalism with lots of socialism that is what we hear, and it is nonsensical.

OurToothbrush, to memes in It's a simple world view

In the sense that it is fascist rhetoric sure.

Overpopulation is a myth.

OurToothbrush, to memes in It's a simple world view

Henry Kissinger won a nobel peace prize lmao

Capitalist awards often mean you are bad at the thing they’re commending you for

OurToothbrush, to memes in Economic Theory is Fun tho.

I dont know, let’s ask Chinese feudal lords how their ability to enforce private property went after the CPC stopped enforcing their private property rights for them like the old government did.

OurToothbrush, (edited ) to memes in Economic Theory is Fun tho.

Are you talking about China? If so, I’m afraid they’re communist in name only. They realized many years ago that Marxist economic theory doesn’t work and began to integrate capitalist principles into their economy.

You’re kind of incredibly ignorant on China. They’re a mostly publicly controlled economy.

Source: piie.com/…/chinas-state-vs-private-company-tracke…

The reasoning for a private sector is to prevent economic and technological siege.

Also marxist economic theory is literally just a structured critique of capitalism. It doesn’t have anything to say about socialism or communism, that is marx’s other works.

De facto, China is a capitalist-fascist state more comparable to WW2 Germany than anything Marx ever came up with.

I would really suggest reading “Economy and class structure of german fascism” and comparing it to the political and economic situation of China. (And actually understand those situations, not just passively absorb ideas from anglophone media) This isn’t meant to be a dig, but this level of political illiteracy is embarrassing.

than anything Marx ever came up with.

Have you literally read any book that Marx wrote? (The manifesto is a manifesto, it doesn’t count, but I’d also be interested in knowing if you’ve read that)

OurToothbrush, to memes in Economic Theory is Fun tho.

But conversely, if there isn’t a state, what’s to prevent property owners from banding together and protecting their property with violence?

That would literally be a capitalist state in every meaningful sense.

keep in mind that given enough money or gold or whatever, they could also hire mercenaries to prevent workers from rebelling.

Sorta like a police force of some kind?

It really all comes down to who is better at organizing. So it’s possible that in one scenario, workers would seize the means of production successfully, and if they are good enough at keeping it running, they’d operate as a commune, while in another scenario, there’d be a more hierarchical, capitalist structure of organization.

You know what is really fucking organized? A state. It is almost like at the beginning of the country all the large landowners and capitalists got together and made one of those to protect their interests.

You’re simply arguing from a standpoint of “but I like THIS approach better” when it’s a question of “but can you make it WORK?”

Lol. I am literally asking how your hypothetical system would handle class antagonisms, the primary concern of politics. I am very directly asking “but can you make it work”

OurToothbrush, to memes in Economic Theory is Fun tho.

Capitalism (strictly defined as the private ownership of the means of production) can’t exist without the premise of private property being protected by laws that are collectively agreed upon, enforced, and adjudicated by peers within your community.

This implies that any capitalist society is compatible with democracy, as in, “the will of the masses controls society” and not as in “you get to vote for genocidal liberal who will make us richer, or genocidal fascist who will make us richer”

OurToothbrush, (edited ) to memes in Economic Theory is Fun tho.

Communism is a classless stateless society, parents within our society literally own their children as property.

This likely also explains the continued popularity of communism as a political philosophy, especially among young people. Going out into the world, where there is competition and conflict is jarring, and the wish for society to be organized more like a family unit is understandable, although it is far more difficult to organize a large country in this way than a household of no more than, say, a dozen people.

Remind me again, what is the political ideology of the new world superpower? The one with 1.4 billion people? You know, now that the capitalist US empire is in obvious terminal decline.

OurToothbrush, to memes in How did this break rule 1? Did you just not read the 2nd panel?

Not a guy but yeah

OurToothbrush, to memes in How did this break rule 1? Did you just not read the 2nd panel?

Not a man, stop assuming everyone on the internet is a man.

The Muslim countries who send delegations claim there isn’t a genocide. The people who historically have used Muslim extremism to destabilize countries and then bomb the shit out of their local population leading to hundreds of thousands or millions of casualties still claim that China’s anti-extremism program was genocide.

OurToothbrush, to lemmy_support in Being banned with no accountability

Hey, I’m the mod that banned them.

I’ve made it very clear that equating zionism with jewishness will not be tolerated.

It is antisemitic to equate an antizionist slogan with antisemitism, because equating jewishness with zionist settler colonialism is literally tied with the “jews are foreign agents” nazi bullshit.

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