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[–] cyborganism@piefed.ca 26 points 5 days ago (3 children)

As time goes by, communism is becoming increasingly attractive. Like, real communism. Not the bullshit under Stalin or in China.

[–] OutlierBlue@lemmy.ca 19 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Capitalism is working as intended, and it's destroying us.

[–] troyunrau@lemmy.ca 7 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Capitalism is a funnel -> those with capital extract additional capital from those without. I say this as a small business owner, just barely turning towards "winning" the game if capitalism after decades on the other side. It's a resource snowball, and only a few can win.

Ideally, there is regulation, scaling taxes and redistribution. That part seems more broken the further along you get.

[–] avidamoeba@lemmy.ca 3 points 5 days ago

Ideally, there is regulation, scaling taxes and redistribution. That part seems more broken the further along you get.

Of course, cause a part of the snowballed resources are used to break those. From one angle you could see the resource snowball (capital accumulation) as a self-reproducing phenomenon that drives the system into unstoppable feedback loops till they lead to various breaking points.

[–] bystander@lemmy.ca 9 points 4 days ago

People are so afraid of the word still. A balance of implementing sensible ideas from the political spectrum is the way.

If you lean too hard towards one ideology you almost always get a murderous autocracy.

China has not been a communist state for a long time. It's a hyper capitalist state with socialist values, while still under a dictatorship.

[–] eatCasserole@lemmy.world -5 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Have you seen China lately? It's getting pretty dang attractive.

[–] cyborganism@piefed.ca 2 points 4 days ago (2 children)

I know there's a lot of great things that China is able to do under their regime. Like building mass transit incredibly fast. But this comes at a great price though in terms of rights and freedoms.

[–] DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social 3 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (1 children)

The freedoms the West is throwing in the trash without even getting healthcare and mass transit for it.

[–] cyborganism@piefed.ca 2 points 4 days ago

Yeah but whose fault is that? People chose this. China doesn't have a choice.

[–] eatCasserole@lemmy.world 0 points 3 days ago (2 children)

So our masters keep saying.

But actual Chinese people don't seem too worried.

The Chinese government gets approval ratings (according to Western pollsters) that western governments can only dream of, and it's not that mysterious when you consider, the standard of living for most if not all regular people there has been skyrocketing.

Remember that China is the greatest threat to American hegemony and all the powerful people aligned with it. Do you really expect corporate-owned media to give you accurate, unbiased information on such an adversary?

[–] cyborganism@piefed.ca 1 points 3 days ago

I don't expect China nor the Chinese people to tell the truth either. You wouldn't want your social score to drop or end up in jail or forced labor.

[–] Quadhammer@lemmy.world 1 points 3 days ago

They're not communist tho they're a capitalistic dynasty