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I love the way they evict themselves
Thank you
Solution to the problem: ban right-wingers, impose socialism and if rich people get too noisy send secret services to deal with them Pinochet-style. Bam, capitalism defeated in a few years.
Not that simple.
Nah, it is. Seize all their assets and if they complain, again, some Pinochet-style methods that will bend them to our knees.
Sorry, patience is over and right-wingers and their financiers must be dealt with the appropriate way.
You and what army?
This is what I would do if I were in power.
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I’d do it differently.
I would fund a massive advertising campaign preaching equality, fairness, and cooperation
I would use the tax system to weaken the cycle of intergenerational wealth (the ultra wealthy spend borrowed money which is settled by their estate on death; I would tax bequests to banks; I would tax inheritances above a pretty high limit.
It would take time. The aim would be to have a much more level wealth distribution
Seize who’s assets exactly? The second you draw a line and say anyone on the other side has fewer rights than you, you’re falling right in line with those same right-wing policies.
There is no way to define a law against “right-wingers” that doesn’t infringe on basic rights like freedom of opinion and freedom from discrimination. You can’t punish people for being part of a group. You need to point to something specific that each individual has done that is illegal before prosecuting. Anything less and society will break down into fascism.
Seize who’s assets exactly?
Rich people’s
The second you draw a line and say anyone on the other side has fewer rights than you
Nah, just do it against rich people.
There is no way to define a law against “right-wingers” that doesn’t infringe on basic rights like freedom of opinion and freedom from discrimination. You can’t punish people for being part of a group. You need to point to something specific that each individual has done that is illegal before prosecuting. Anything less and society will break down into fascism.
Fuck this fake democracy then.
Again, not that simple. Read The State and Revolution.
Sorry, tired of world going to shit and if we need someone that makes Stalin look like a kitten to fix it, so be it.
That will not fix it. You’re advocating for adventurism, not leftism.
adventurism
Adventurist leftism, maybe?
No, adventurism.
In simpler terms, it’s greed.
It’s systems built to reward the exploitation of the many by a few powerful individuals. It’s not a sin that is the issue, it’s the actual political-economic systems that are currently being maintained.
That’s too close to a “it’s just human nature” asspull too often used to justify capitalistic skullduggery.
“Fascism should rightly be called Corporatism, as it is the merger of corporate and government power.” - Benito Mussolini
I‘m not disagreeing with what you’re trying to convey but still: Mussolini very likely never said/wrote that, seems to have been misattributed. IF he did, the Italian word corporazioni, while technically translating to corporations, doesn’t refer to private companies, which in Italian are normally called società.
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Ehh i wouldnt agree, heavy capitalists are usually pretty liberal because they dont like regulation. There is some precident of big factory and company owners actually fighting against faschism(not for the good reasons tho). I do agree with lesser right wing ideologies just being “recruitment” for far-righters. Wewe seen them radicalise so many times in the past that it should be obvious by now that any amount of right leads to more far-right.
Capitalism doesn’t care what people feel about it, it moves according to its structure. Just because libertarians don’t like Capitalism doesn’t mean they can stop monopoly Capitalism from lobbying for regulations.
All liberal capitalists want a full on chain of commands and dictator level control over their
domainemployees. The only difference is that they want “market forces” to force people to work for them instead of violence.Yeah thats true. Maybe this is like reading into the nuance of how a work camp is better than a death camp because you at least produce something before dying a horrible death. But i still stand by my opinion that the meme isnt completely true.
I would certainly not say that adding extra torment by forcing people to work as a profit incentive for capitalists would make said death camp any less abhorrent.
Yes thats what im saying in my comment? Maybe my language was unclear but i meant that my original comment is also a useless comparison.
Poverty is violence. The extra steps change nothing.
It outsources the blame and hides the connection from those who lack critical thinking.
Fuckingcapitalists
How is national socialism a mask for capitalism?
Because the Nazis were Anticommunist, antisocialist Capitalists.
national ‘socialism’ my fucking ass
One time I had a brain fart when I was reading about the United the Right rally and was confused why “national socialists” were there lol. Aren’t socialists left? Then I was like “…oh. literal Nazis.”
You can’t actually combine Nationalism and Socialism as Socialism is directly opposed to Nationalism. Mussolini went over this many times how “It is an error of Socialism to exclude Nationalism”(paraphrased), the Socialist aspect is reduced to the future where the “others” have been eradicated, which will never actually happen as Hitler went from “There are 5 white races” to “All Mediterraneans have been negrified” and I’ve no doubt he would eventually consider all slavs to be “mongolized”.
An anarchist would take off the capitalist mask to reveal hierarchy
Capitalism is a hierarchy so true as well
Wouldn’t the state also be in the frame before the capitalist at the end?
I’m an ML but no, states are more fundamental than capitalism. There were states prior to capitalism and they will likely exist after capitalism, but capitalism cannot exist without a state as the special apparatus of class oppression.
As an ML though you could argue that states are downstream of the economic circumstances that force their development
Yeah, you’re probably right
you forgot somethingThe State is the weapon by which any class asserts their control, not the other way around.
Fascism is Capitalism’s immune system, activated when the wealth gap gets too large.
Activated when the people get’s too aware of the exploitation and begins fighting back
Maybe we shouldn’t be using an economic system whose immune system has historically lead to genocide, especially in an age where nukes are now a thing.
If it’s protecting capitalism, wouldn’t you mean when the wealth gap is too small? As in it is a driving force of the wealth gap?
No, as the Petite Bourgeoisie are proletarianized by the formation of Monopoly Capitalism, the Petite Bourgeoisie aligns with the Bourgeoisie against the Proletariat, who at the time gain class consciousness and are increasingly sympathetic to Socialism and Communism. Fascism is a defense mechanism against Communism.
Behind the Nazis is what they learned from Trail of Tears and US antebellum slavery. Behind that, you get Rome.
It’s war. War is behind all fascism.
Facsism is just capitalism when you try to say no.
Understandably, workers didn’t like capitalism. So, when they found out about socialism, many of them grouped up and tried to say no. After which, facsism was made to counter this.
So, I mean literally fascism is just capitalism when you try to say no. You only get mercan staal neo classical economics because you say yes.
The CSA precedes the Nazis. In fact, Nazi race laws were partially based on slavery laws from the southern US.
If everything is capitalism, then nothing is capitalism
They’re not even saying everything is capitalism though.
In what I’ve observed from a certain demographic on here, there seems to be a theme
So you’re jumping to conclusions.
More like an educated guess
No, just finding one
Everything isn’t capitalism, but fascism is always funded by the capitalist class. In fact it can’t get far without it. Fascism doesn’t just randomly sprout out of the ground; it’s not as organic & grassroots as most people think. Fascism is always a false revolution, because the capitalist class always remains in power. It’s what the capitalist class falls back on when liberal democracy starts to fail them. It’s when the capitalist class goes mask off. That’s what Lenin meant by “fascism is capitalism in decay.” Michael Parenti: Rational Fascism
How did January 6 happen? With a whole bunch of funding from rich motherfuckers.
- CNN: Man who organized buses for 200 people to travel to DC pleads guilty in US Capitol riot probe
- ProPublica: Texts Show Kimberly Guilfoyle Bragged About Raising Millions for Rally That Fueled Capitol Riot
- NPR: New clues emerge about the money that might have helped fund the Jan. 6 insurrection
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The Nation: Trumpism: It’s Coming From the SuburbsBut scapegoating poor whites keeps the conversation away from fascism’s real base: the petite bourgeoisie. This is a piece of jargon used mostly by Marxists to denote small-property owners, whose nearest equivalents these days may be the “upper middle class” or “small-business owners.” […] Trump’s real base, the actual backbone of fascism, isn’t poor and working-class voters, but middle-class and affluent whites. Often self-employed, possessed of a retirement account and a home as a nest egg, this is the stratum taken in by Horatio Alger stories. They can envision playing the market well enough to become the next Trump. They haven’t won “big-league,” but they’ve won enough to be invested in the hierarchy they aspire to climb. If only America were made great again, they could become the haute bourgeoisie—the storied “1 percent.”
Bro really went out of his way here💀
You’re on Lemmy, most of the Communists here have trained in 1000x Earth’s gravity to fight Liberalism. You can’t exist as a Communist otherwise.
According to your logic: If everything is the universe then nothing is the universe
And according to yours, capitalism is the universe?
Well universe = earth = humans = currency = capitalism
The level of self centered thinking here is off the charts
currency = capitalism
u wot mate? If that was the case then we would always have had Capitalism, which we’ve obviously did not. You need a system that supports inserting capital into random companies to get to Capitalism, not (just) currency.
That’s not true, currency is an invention, it’s not as old as humanity. Primitive agrarian societies (and of course hunter-gatherer societies) broadly did not use currency.
humans = currency
??? Currency being capitalism is also wrong, but that’s just baffling
Capitalism is not currency, currency existed long before Capitalism.
You get it
