• Cleverdawny@lemm.ee
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    1 year ago

    I’d rather work for the money I can negotiate than whatever some communist official says I need. I’d rather have real labor unions representing me than unions populated entirely by Party officials.

    Capitalism isn’t perfect. But capitalism with good social safety nets is a better economic system than anything else we have developed. “We have nothing to lose but our chains?” Sure, if you want some tyrant replacing fair work for fair pay with work at the barrel of a gun and labor under the eye of the secret police.

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    1 year ago

    Ugh, are all posts on this meme sub “Capitalism bad, Marx good. Uplemmies on the left”? We get it, capitalism is exploitative. Although, I am curious on how the communists on here envision a real communist government. Please share, I’m just curious.

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      1 year ago

      There can be no communist government. Communism is a collaboration of communities, not a single government. Just as like as Lemmy itself.

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        1 year ago

        I understand that theory, but like I asked: How does that work in real life? Does there not have to be a governing body to ensure that everyone/every community adheres to the communist philosophy?

  • Uprise42@artemis.camp
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    1 year ago

    “Capitalism sucks so let’s go do this other arguably more shitty thing that is even more susceptible to corruption”

    Makes sense. Capitalism sucks and we need to get out of the capitalist structure, but your dream of fucking communism garbage and irrelevant to that. It shouldn’t happen and it won’t happen. What we need to replace our system with is something that is able to be protected against corruption. That’s not communism.