Reading about FOSS philosophy, degoogling, becoming against corporations, and now a full-blown woke communist (like Linus Torvalds)
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Food insecurity and starvation? Brother I much prefer working 5 minutes for a loaf of bread rather than queueing half a day to hopefully get 2 slices
I wonder what you think the motive behind colonialism and the transatlantic slave trade was.
Colonialism - you mean a collectivist institution for the "social" and "communal" good (the state) - disrespecting others private property rights? nb. Private property is a principle of the Free Market. All private property rights are an extension of self ownership. To hell with slavery - which includes the collective slavery of Communism!
So you don't know what communism is since you mentioned it needing a state. I guess Nazi Germany is communist because of the "collectivist" goal of the Nazi party to improve the "motherland." Wtf am I saying, you probably actually believe that.
Me when I ignore the numerous amounts of right wing genocidal dictators installed by western capitalist governments in other countries in the name of capitalism (I am using Black Book of Communism rhetoric, a book that included stagnating birth rates and death of Nazi figures in war to inflate my figures as I have no other argument of substance).
Communism needs a state as shown by Socialism needing a state. Socialism being the path to (anarchist) Communism. A totalitarian state no less. Yes and the National SOCIALISTS were also collectivists (and Totalitarians) - correct. National Socialists and International Socialists were enemies as they were fighting for the same ideological ground. Many would in fact would switch sides.
Collectivist =/= Communist, I am tired or arguing with Red Scare Americans who do not understand what Communism even is, nor understand the fact that a government that implements mass privatisation that the Nazis put in place is the exact opposite of communism. Fuck me.
And today under capitalism we have high wages? Low prices? Abundance?
Today under central banks (an tenant of communism) we have government controlled inflationary currency robbing us all.
The federal reserve banks in the US are privately owned so even with your stupid definition of communism being "government does things" you're wrong. The fed is supposed to act independently of the government.
Privately owned and in kahoots with the government - in the USA. Other central banks are government institutions. They all force the tender upon those within borders and demand payment in that tender - taxes. A true Free Market would have market derived currencies that people would voluntary adopt. No force. The very heart of 'Capitalism', that being capital, is not free, not libre. It is captured by private and/or state entities and controlled. True, although central banks are a tenant of communism, the situation in the USA is more akin to that of Fascism - the partnership of state and private business. The term Capitalism itself in its original meaning, as defined by Marx, is what we would more likely now call Crony-Capitalism. We need to abolish Capitalism/Crony-Capitalism and embrace Laissez-faire. Libre Software and libre markets!
You should look into the word 'tenant' and see if you're not trying to say 'tenet' half the time
Oh wow you're just relentlessly stupid huh? Good luck with that
the black book of communism cites deaths of nazi soldiers on the eastern front as victims of the communist regime
Technically correct
Afghanistan is communist?
Edit: The entire African continent is also communist?
dont tell this guy how many people died in capitalism (capitalist wars, poverty, etc.)