Are Politicians Puppets? Who Really Runs the World? (lemmy.world)

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We vote. We debate. We argue over politicians like they’re the real decision-makers. But are they really in charge? Or are they just well-dressed puppets, reading from a script written by those with real power?

Behind every election, there are corporations, lobbyists, billionaires, and hidden networks pulling the strings. Policies aren’t always shaped by public interest but by those who fund campaigns, control the media, and influence economies.

The question is: Who truly holds the power? The government? The wealthy elite? Tech giants? Intelligence agencies?

And if politicians are just the face of a system much bigger than them, does voting even matter? Or are we just choosing between different masks of the same machine?

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[-] NobodyIsPito@lemmy.world 4 points 3 weeks ago

I, personally, don’t accept any kind of dictatorship can ever be good. That there is a series of humans with self interest in between the resources of a nation and the populace of a nation leads me to doubt that possibility. If it were possible, we would have seen more than a few prosperous Marxist nations.

A "good dictatorship" in the Marxist sense isn’t about a singular tyrant, but the working class collectively taking control to dismantle capitalist power.

The reason Marxist nations have struggled is due to elite corruption, not the ideology itself. Dictatorship, when it's truly for the people, can redistribute power and create equality.

The real issue with capitalism is that it claims to be democratic but is manipulated by the wealthy elite. True democracy can only exist when economic power is decentralized, and that's something capitalism can never achieve.

[-] davel@lemmy.ml 2 points 3 weeks ago

The reason Marxist nations have struggled is due to elite corruption, not the ideology itself.

The primary reason, by a long shot, is that the imperialist states never stop trying to destroy socialist states, or really any state that stands between them and their plundering.

Understanding Siege Socialism w/ Gabriel Rockhill
Michael Parenti, Blackshirts and Reds, Pure Socialism vs. Siege Socialism

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