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[-] SplashJackson@lemmy.ca 83 points 3 weeks ago

I thought memes were supposed to be funny... this just looks like a propaganda poster

[-] KSPAtlas@sopuli.xyz 23 points 3 weeks ago

I mean, propaganda is technically a type of meme, isn't it?

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[-] eestileib 47 points 3 weeks ago

Maaaaaaybe the USSR isn't the best example of a better society we want to be building.

I'm watching the whole ideological-purge thing happen in the US and it kinda sucks.

[-] BrainInABox@lemmy.ml 13 points 3 weeks ago

Either build something better or shutup, I say. Unless you're a big fan of Tsarist Russia

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[-] oyzmo@lemmy.world 34 points 3 weeks ago

Socialism allows for both public and private ownership, individual freedoms, and democratic decision-making, while still aiming for social equality. Communism, in contrast, tends to involve total state control and often limits personal freedoms.

[-] Cowbee@lemmy.ml 14 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

Both Capitalism and Socialism have room for public and private ownership, the difference is which sector controls the state, large firms, and key industries. The Nordic Countries are dominated by Private Capital, ie it is Capitalist, while the PRC is dominated by Public Ownership, ie it is Socialist.

Communism limits the personal freedoms of the bourgeoisie. All Communism is, is a more developed and global form of Socialism, where the small firms that once were private have all grown into the public sector or collapsed.

[-] BrainInABox@lemmy.ml 13 points 3 weeks ago

Tell me you've never read anything about communism that wasn't written by anti-communists without telling me you've never read anything about communism that wasn't written by anti-communists.

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[-] void_turtle 24 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

The desire to dominate and the willingness to act on it has existed in a fraction of the population since before humans were human. This is the root of all evil, capitalism is a specific manifestation of this impulse that has only existed for some 400 years. If your analysis starts and ends at "capitalism bad" you miss the vast majority of oppression that has existed or will exist.

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[-] redsand@lemmy.dbzer0.com 22 points 3 weeks ago

Luigi's hand doesn't look anything like that. Someone fix this meme

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[-] fakir@lemm.ee 18 points 3 weeks ago

Greed, not capitalism is the root of evil. Fight me.

[-] JeSuisUnHombre@lemm.ee 38 points 3 weeks ago

Capitalism rewards greed, thus perpetuating it and entrenching it. So capitalism is the root of our greed epidemic

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[-] juliebean@lemm.ee 27 points 3 weeks ago

capitalism is the system whereby greed is raised above all other human impulses though. in most other systems, sure, people can be greedy, but they aren't rewarded for it, and people who aren't naturally greedy don't get pushed and trained to be greedy as the highest aspiration.

[-] Cowbee@lemmy.ml 17 points 3 weeks ago

Human aspects like greed are not intrinsic to humanity, but created by the material conditions and mechanisms surrounding them, and are thus malleable and expressed in lower or greater degrees in different systems. Capitalism in particular expresses greed as its entire foundation is the relentless accumulation of profit and exansion of markets and commodification for the purposes of private wealth.

[-] CapriciousDay@lemmy.ml 11 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

Technically correct because greed is the cause of capitalism. But don't be fooled into thinking there's a long term, greed restrained capitalism that is going to work out for us; wealth is power. With sufficient wealth, a man can raise an army.

As soon as you allow him to accumulate it, you raise the possibility that he will buy your politicians and corrupt your citizens through amplifying his messages to make society ever greedier in his image. He will hire people to make unlawful works, and pay the fines and dodge the court room.

When you resist this corruption, they respond with fascism.

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[-] chemicalwonka@discuss.tchncs.de 11 points 3 weeks ago

lol, so stupid

[-] Grimel@lemm.ee 18 points 3 weeks ago

Ah yes, get rid of extremism with different extremism. I think we've been there already. Spoiler: Didnt work.

[-] Cowbee@lemmy.ml 12 points 3 weeks ago

First, a societal organization outside the Western norm has no bearing on if it will be successful or not. The "middle" has no superior intrinsic characteristics.

Second, we know Socialism works, the PRC is now becoming the de facto world power as the US falls, all while providing dramatic improvements for its people and increasing levels of satisfaction.

What, specifically, doesn't work?

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[-] Robin@lemmy.world 17 points 3 weeks ago

"X is good, Y is bad." It rarely is that simple.

[-] Cowbee@lemmy.ml 44 points 3 weeks ago

Cool agitprop posters like what OP posted rarely give you a particularly nuanced perspective due to their limited space. The intended effect is to spark conversation, not to beam Marxism into the heads of anyone who sees it.

[-] Ummdustry@sh.itjust.works 23 points 3 weeks ago

rip marxists, the one type they make a meme with fewer than 100 words and people still complain :0

[-] Cowbee@lemmy.ml 20 points 3 weeks ago

For real... 🫠

If I write an essay, people don't genuinely read it, if I write short responses I either over-simplify or manage to raise more questions than I answer... at least, it feels that way sometimes, lol

[-] reagansrottencorpse@lemmy.ml 13 points 3 weeks ago

I read them. I have learned a lot on Lemmy.

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[-] Wilco@lemm.ee 14 points 3 weeks ago

Last I checked the USSR didn't do so well financially, and Russia is basically a criminal empire.

[-] Cowbee@lemmy.ml 18 points 3 weeks ago

The USSR did fairly well until liberalizing part of its economy, as well as struggling to recover from the immense cost it paid to win the Eastern Front and beat the Nazis while under the oppression of the Cold War.

The Marxist-Leninist tradition is still carried forward by many states, including the PRC, which is on its way to surpass the US as world superpower.

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[-] storm 12 points 3 weeks ago

(Hierarchical) Power in general is the root cause, not Capitalism in particular

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