Alison CreeksideJul 12
“They made healthcare a commodity, education a debt trap, and housing a speculation market — then told you that poverty is a personal failing.
They privatized survival and called it freedom."
~ from Michell C Clark
Show threadSebastian GogolaJul 12
@AlisonCreekside Capitalism will be a proven failure such as Communism.
Show threadRDJul 12

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If you're referring to the USSR or any other country that has been called "communist", that was state capitalism, not communism.

Show threadSebastian GogolaJul 12
@RD4Anarchy @AlisonCreekside so not to sound like an idiot I pinged my Russian friend who grew up in USSR and survived the brutal 90s there after the "Communist" state fell. He told me plain and simple it was communism since the 20s. Why people come and throw comments like yours is beyond me.
Show threadhackersquirrelJul 12
@sebgogola
It's beyond you because you don't seek out experts like Prof. Wolff instead 'some guy'.
https://youtu.be/ysZC0JOYYWw?si=qF5t6MapJo-fF2Ye
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Socialism For Dummies.

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Show threadSebastian GogolaJul 12

@hackersquirrel @RD4Anarchy @AlisonCreekside yea of course. Typical critical leftist view. Sorry I disagree. Not saying it's necessarily wrong. The USSR called itself communist but in practice moreso state capitalism. State owned everything. Workers didn't control anything. Elite made all the decisions which goes against communism. People had no power or production shared. If anything I would call it bureaucratic socialism. People who lived it still call it communism or some Marxist Leninist socialist/communist state. Seems to me they wanted it to be communist but never made it.

That said scary enough America is State Capitalism which is why I think it's about to fail. Control is an illusion in this country.

My apologies for earlier comment. These discussions are like splitting hairs sometimes.

Show threadhackersquirrelJul 13
@sebgogola
They called it communism like we call our system democracy. Neither one is true.
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Show threadSebastian GogolaJul 13
@hackersquirrel @RD4Anarchy @AlisonCreekside right. That's where I take sides with the Russians about our so called "democracy".
Show threadhackersquirrelJul 13
@sebgogola
Yeah. Authoritarianism from both extremes.
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Show threadSebastian Gogola
@hackersquirrel @RD4Anarchy @AlisonCreekside yup. It's all the same.
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