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WOW, do I find the extra humor in this coming from a blog called 'The Communist' 😂
Pretty sure "Capitalism" as a whole isn't the root cause here.
Capitalism is the root cause of a whole heap of major problems. Almost all of them in fact. I suppose you could go one further and settle on greed as the cause. But since capitalism is institutionalised greed, it still wouldn't excuse capitalism even if you did.
Lol, right. So let's break down this down since Communism has miserably failed every test and attempt it's attempt at being used as a socioeconomic ideology:
So what you and this are article are saying is that all those previous failures of Communism wasn't it's fault, but rather...Capitalism? I'm not making a claim that Capitalism solves those same problems, but it at least doesn't offer a more fluid movement inside an economic system. You would be a Serf under Communism with no ability to pick and choose what you'd like to do in said system. I won't even get into the built-in ruling class bullshit it brings along.
Is this another one of those "Well if EVERYONE just used Communism, THEN it would totally work just fine!" arguments in its favor, is it?
They will tell you communism has never been tried because all those other times it wasn't "real Communism"...
No. Communism has never been tried because leninism isn't communism. Leninism was their big brained broken way of supposedly jump starting communism. Which failed miserably everywhere it was tried and never worked. Communism as actual communism has never been tried yet.
And that's the thing to look at here. If this blog is written by a leninist/tankie whining about capitalism. They're just being hypocrites. But if it's actually being written by actual communist or anarcho communists. People should actually pay attention and listen. Because they actually do have points. However all things being equal and this being Lemmy. It's probably just another tanky that would have their Vanguard party Slaughter us for disagreement.
Damn...that took all of a few minutes to jump in and say exactly what I said.
If that's your excuse then "real capitalism" has never been tried either....lol
Lol ok sure thing buddy
You're welcome to keep proving my point. I can't stop you. I would rather you wouldn't. I would rather you'd actually be curious and ask why I'm saying this. It's obvious you cannot refute anything that was said. Otherwise you would have. Not knowing is not a sin. Refusing to know is.