• Juice@midwest.social
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      I love when people describe a system better than capitalism when trying to make communism look bad.

    • BeamBrain [he/him]@hexbear.net
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      Communism allows everyone to pretend to have free stuff by declaring those that actually make it less than human, and thus less than citizens.

      Your crops are picked by exploited immigrants, the coltan in your electronics mined by African child slaves, and the electronics themselves assembled on 14-hour shifts by sweatshop workers under capitalism. And you still have to pay for them.

      What you’re describing are colonialism and slavery, both of which are time-honored, bedrock capitalist institutions.

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      Communism allows everyone to pretend to have free stuff by declaring those that actually make it less than human

      I know you’ve been banned (not unreasonably so) and can’t respond, but if you truly believe what you wrote above, you owe it to yourself to find out how you’ve been lied to. Communism at its most fundamental core is about alleviating the exploitation done to “those that actually make it” (workers). Communism elevates everyone to personhood, as opposed to capitalism that only does so for the ownership class.