Prescriptively adhering to a communist ideology: ❌
Prescriptively adhering to a capitalist ideology: ❌
Structuring a government to be free of corruption and able to efficiently and rationally respond to problems: ✅
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Except the rational way to respond to our current issues is communism. Especially compared to the field of economics, communism and dialectical materialism is closer to what is observed in studies relating to work, living conditions and resource management.
That's just well regulated capitalism with strong socialist policies.
mfs will say "we don't need communist or capitalism, we need a new separate third thing!" then describe Dengism.
As a Venezuelan currently living in Venezuela, I have always believed that the problem is not so much communism / socialism, but rather the incompetence and corruption of our leaders.
In fact, I could argue that if it weren’t for my country’s socialist policies, I and many people would have died of disease (COVID) or starvation.
I would think, as a Venezuelan living in Venezuela, your main problem would be the USA.
It always has been...
If all communism is soviet, then all capitalism is colonialism and chattel slavery.
Fun fact about NATO and the Warsaw Pact:
Only one of these two entities had a fuckton of defection to the other side.
People wanted to escape from behind the Iron Curtain.
Imagine having to take extraordinary measures and worrying constantly whenever your sports teams, musicians, dancers go play or perform outside of your sphere of influence, because of the high risk of them defecting.
That's exactly what winning social conditions doesn't generate.
The problem is always about authority. The system that enforces the rules is more important than the rules themselves
Communism typically fails because the systems that manage it are corruptible. Capitalism has the opposite problem. If there are no rules surrounding what industry is allowed to do, they will always choose the most profitable thing.
The systems that manage capitalism are also corruptible.
Any time it is possible for one person to control more resources than others, there will be corruption.
The few attempts at communism have nothing on the all life on earth destroying efficiency of runaway capitalism. Literally billions of people and animals have been wiped out with colonialism and capitalism. We really need to start getting more enlightened on various forms of government that have been tried and build a better constitution after the inevitable revolution otherwise these pedophile ghouls will just build us another cage. Also, it’s very important we start identifying narcissists, wealth hoarders and psychopaths as mentally ill and removing their ability to gain any levers of power. It seems like a lot of failed systems were destroyed because narcissists and psychopaths were rewarded for their mental illness. https://coupsaveamerica.substack.com/p/capitalisms-deadly-legacy-hundreds
A recent poll conducted by INSCOP Research for the Institute for the Investigation of Communist Crimes and the Memory of the Romanian Exile (IICCMER) reveals that more than half of Romanians (55.8%) believe that the communist regime was "rather a good thing for Romania."
What was grandma doing in the 1940s?
“Totuși, majoritatea respondenților recunosc că accesul la alimente era limitat, libertatea era mai puțină, accesul la funcții de conducere era permis doar membrilor de partid sau că au fost comise abuzuri și chiar crime. Mai exact, 94,4% dintre cei care au auzit despre subiect, susțin că anumite alimente se cumpărau pe cartelă în cantități limitate, iar altele nu se găseau aproape deloc în magazine. 93,7% recunosc că programul TV era limitate la câteva ore pe zi, iar 88,6% își amintesc restricționarea călătoriilor în afara granițelor. În ceea ce privește abuzurile și sistemul membrilor de partid, 72,6% dintre respondenți sunt de acord cu afirmația potrivit căreia „sute de mii de români au fost omorâți și torturați în închisorile comuniste”, iar 71,9% spun că accesul la orice funcție de conducere era permis doar membrilor de partid.”
“However, most respondents admit that access to food was limited, freedom was less, access to leadership positions was allowed only to party members, or that abuses and even crimes were committed. Specifically, 94.4% of those who heard about the subject claim that certain foods were purchased on the card in limited quantities, and others were almost not available in stores at all. 93.7% admit that TV programming was limited to a few hours a day, and 88.6% remember restrictions on travel abroad. Regarding abuses and the party membership system, 72.6% of respondents agree with the statement that “hundreds of thousands of Romanians were killed and tortured in communist prisons,” and 71.9% say that access to any leadership position was allowed only to party members.”
Still better than capitalism according to them though.
And I'm sure the polling methodology by the Institute for the Investigation of Communist Crimes and the Memory of the Romanian Exile was completely nonbiased, and respondents still view it more positively.
So what was grandma doing in the 1940s?
After informing this lady I know her grandpa was a CIA plant and deserved to be shot for protesting:
Typical reactionary Pole
Okay fed.
is this bait?
If facts = bait, then yes.
A tankie’s dialogue options:
- It wasn’t real communism
- It was great. She’s just influenced by US propaganda
- It would’ve worked if it weren’t for US sabotage
- Capitalism is way worse!!
USA can have one Socialism as a treat (it seems to be going well enough in Canada)
I was thinking about this yesterday, isn't our "retirement" system a sort of reverse socialist policy? It's socialist policy for corporations.
You pay a corporation so they can benefit (stocks) until you are old enough to retire and then pray there is money left to take back out to retire with as opposed to just fucking paying taxes and then the government would give you a retirement distribution when it's time...
If you buy stocks that money goes to the previous stock holder, which is most generally not the corporation.
Makes sense. For the sake of simplicity and to help my understanding say a company sells 100 stocks at $1, people buy and sell them amongst themselves after the full 100 have already been purchased causing the price to increase to $2, the company only ever took in $100 as it was the initial sale even though there is potentially $200 out there?
If that is the case then why do we even talk about "billionaires" based on their company stock prices?
I think their stock valuations are typically of the stock they own rather than total stock. Bezos for instance owns 8% of Amazon.
Socialist policies =/= socialism.
Fuggen librul nozi it wasn't rael communism
Here they come!