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Imma need some context. Searching "cowbee" gave me nothing.
Cowbee is a prominent user on Lemmy who is a communist and frequently picks apart anti-communist comments.
Gotcha, I'm terrible with names.
You mean they dump copy-pasta fan-fiction about AES everywhere.
You literally supported Rhodesia.
You don't get to make moral arguments that anyone takes seriously and you sure don't get to criticize others arguments. Yours led you to support Rhodesia.
Holy shit? There are Rhodesia apologists on Lemmy?
It's like finding a legendary pokemon, if a pokemon said racial slurs
I searched Rhodesia and this one was in the first page of the results. Is this satire? https://www.freespeechbacklash.com/article/rhodesia-brief-history-magnificent-country
I honestly can't tell. Former Rhodesians and Rhodesia apologists are kinda fucking like that.
go home fash
Well? Did you study up in communist theory, or are you content always getting dunked on?
Also, please link us the thread where Cowbee "ignored your best points" so we can take a look at it. I'm curious to see what you're talking about. I suspect you're lying.
Edit: https://lemmy.world/comment/23871382
Sigh, Cowbee painstakingly engaged with you, displayed patience and empathy and kindness, and this is the route you went. Reading your comments, you're completely and utterly clueless. You would do well to stop throwing mud at people who take time to help you parse your scattered "ideology" and instead do some reading and shut the fuck up.
He thoroughly broke down your points, you just refused to agree.
I think you might have some things to work on. I wish you well on the journey of self discovery
Communism by itself isn't bad, nor is capitalism, but both assume that their proponents are immune to greed, and that their opponent are full of it.
There are good things in both, bad things in both. The problem is to find people that are truly altruistic, and that have the moral fortitude to stay altruistic.
Edit: y'all can downvote all you want, I'll stand by my opinion unless someone has the honesty to argue on that.
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And he wants someone to "honestly argue with him" LMAO.
Neither capitalism nor communism assume that their proponents are immune to greed. Capitalism was developed as an improvement over (European) feudalism and mercantilism. The idea is that division of labour expands the quantity and diversity of goods that can be produced. Communism is similarly supposed to be an improvement on capitalism. Here, the idea is that centralised planning can improve the distribution of the produced goods (and further improve the quantity and diversity of goods).
Read Marx
Heavily disagree, friend. Capitalism by itself is bad. It may have good things, but that hardly justifies the inhuman and cruel roots it stands on. Capitalism does not assume that its proponents should be free of greed, it wants them to be greedy. Why the hell would you want to keep expanding your money if not for greed? Capitalism runs on this principle of self expanding value and inequal exchanges. It strives for profit, nothing else. I haven't studied communism well enough, but communism doesn't assume it's proponents to be immune to greed, it dismantles the institutions by which greed operates(money, class, and state).
The state ownership of production is deliberate, and aimed at improving efficiency and allowing forward planning. One (or a few, if you want competition) large factory is more efficient than a bunch of smaller workshops. State ownership can lead to corruption, as you pointed out, but it is a conscious choice and not happenstance.
Can you list the good parts of capitalism? If you say the free market, capitalism doesn’t have a monopoly on that concept. Socialism and communism have free market aspects too, but they centralize control of resources so that 5 people can’t drain everything and ascend to the top.