• Gorilladrums@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    Fun fact: Capitalism is superior to any form of Marxism and there’s literally nothing you could do or say to change that

    Another fun fact: Not everything you don’t like is capitalism’s fault.

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      1 year ago

      I’m talking about crapitalism, it’s not real capitalism: It’s unregulated crony bullshit where corporations abuse the system and the government ignores it because money.

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        Ultimately I think every political and economic system, no matter how ideal on paper, falls apart due to human greed and just straight up evil people

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          I think economic systems can work reasonably well, provided that it plans for that sort of shit. Nothing will ever be perfect, but things can be improved: Unrestricted capitalism is unsustainable but that doesn’t mean that all aspects of it are inherently bad. Same for some aspects of socialism. The best system that seems to exist so far is a sort of hybrid of the two systems in countries like Denmark where it’s definitely not straight up socialist, but it still has a strong social safety net.

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        I feel like being against cronyism isn’t really a hot take. Virtually everybody is against cronyism except for the cronies themselves.

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        Cultural hegemony is literally a Marxist concept that only exists to justify the ideology, not the other way around. No matter which way we slice it, Marxism in all its forms is a failure. It’s a failure both on paper and in practice. It has resulted in just as many, if not more atrocities than fascism… Yet fascism has been rightfully demonized and put to rest, but Marxism hasn’t. It’s time to move past Marxism, it’s wrong and it’ll never work.

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          I noticed you have the ability to use words, but not the ability to make them true. I once thought myself a Republican. And then I saw how they hate. I once thought myself a Democrat. And then I saw how they lie. I once thought myself a Libertarian. And then I saw how that’s batshit crazy. I once thought myself an Independent. And then I saw how that was vain. I once thought myself a Social Democrat. And then I realized that market failures are built into the system. Now, I’m not sure what I am. I’m still learning, and you should too. But I for damn sure know that I’m not a Capitalist.

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            If you have the ability to learn, then learn from history. It states very clearly in big bold letters that MARXISM IS A FAILURE

            Capitalism is not perfect, it has many problems and requires many adjustments, but despite it’s flaws it is objectively better than Marxism. Why? Because it has actually been proven to work.

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                China stopped being economically Marxist in the 1980s. The only thing that they kept from Marxism was all the authoritarianism. Cuba isn’t doing too hot though, their doctors literally get paid $50 a month