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Why there is so much communist propaganda on lemmy? (feddit.uk)

submitted 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) by [email protected] to c/asklemmy

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Even from people that never lived in a communist state

edit: im 17 and i hate communism

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[–] dragontamer 20 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (1 children)

I mean, I don't have much problem with people disagreeing with me. But I'm pretty openly pro-capitalist, though I'm not a dumbass libertarian.

I recognize the need for the "capitalist edge cases" (externalities, monopolies, etc. etc.) that must be regulated and fixed for the system to work. I also recognize that we've failed to regulate externalities (ex: CO2 emissions), and failed to regulate monopolies / anticompetitive behavior (see Google).

So I'm a "capitalism works, but only if we work to make it work" kind of person. I think at the moment, Reddit and many other social networks are falling into the well known and well studied failures of raw capitalism, but somehow today's society has forgotten all the 1910s era solutions that we did (ex: Jungle, etc. etc.) where we regulated the hell out of the shitty behavior and fixed the most blatant problems, for the better of America.

We just gotta do the same thing today.

Overall, I accept that the commies / tankies were here first, and the history of Lemmy makes it clear why that happened.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (1 children)

So I’m a “capitalism works, but only if we work to make it work” kind of person. I think at the moment, Reddit and many other social networks are falling into the well known and well studied failures of raw capitalism, but somehow today’s society has forgotten all the 1910s era solutions that we did (ex: Jungle, etc. etc.) where we regulated the hell out of the shitty behavior and fixed the most blatant problems, for the better of America.

Right there with you.

We just gotta do the same thing today.

We also HAVE to teach the kids how to protect it better than people did 100 years ago. Most of our problems today stem from people voting to remove "useless red tape" (that was put there for damn good reasons).

[–] [email protected] 5 points 7 months ago

The Marxist answer to why the red tape is removed is not because people directly vote for it, but that the State serves the bourgeoisie.