miss_demeanourOct 2

Guided By Voices

https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/54690880

Show threadnexguyOct 2
Communism isn’t bad. Socialism isn’t bad. Capitalism isn’t bad. It’s what humans do with them that is bad. Don’t be a greedy dick and they would all work fine.
Show threadmasquenoxOct 2

Don’t be a greedy dick

Sure thing… it’s not like capitalism is fundamentally designed to empower the pathologically greedy or anything, eh?

Show threadLibertyLizardOct 3
Every system of government is designed to empower the shitheads who came up with it.
Show threadprole

Marxism is explicitly not designed that way. Like it’s the entire fucking point.

And yes, I’m aware of how attempts at Marxism have gone.

Oct 3 at 4:56pmWeb
Show threadLibertyLizardOct 3

It may have been the point but the results speak for themselves, and much analysis has pointed out the factors in Marx’s ideas that led to these outcomes.

So I stand by my statement.

Show threadproleOct 4
You stand by your statement that it was designed that way? You sure?
Show threadLibertyLizardOct 4
Yup, read about the early history of Marxism. It’s the same power struggle BS as every other ideology.