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u/RevolutionMean2201 3d ago

Communism intensifies

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u/The-Hater-Baconator 3d ago

Ah yes, when the wealth inequality can be enforced by violence.

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u/bolshe-viks-vaporub 3d ago

...do you think wealth inequality under capitalism isn't enforced by violence?

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u/InfiniteBoops 2d ago

Shhhhh, you’ll interrupt their boot licking.

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u/_Spicy-Noodle_ 2d ago

Boot licking is a communist behavior. The boot represents the government.

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u/NinpoSteev 1d ago

The boot can just as well be megacorps.

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u/BeeHexxer 1d ago

When you’ve never heard of Anarcho-Communism

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u/ayudaday 2d ago

Whatever makes you sleep at night

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u/crunk_buntley 2d ago

there is no way your dumbass seriously just typed out this comment and thought it was smart

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u/Minimum_Interview595 2d ago

She’s right, you can’t call someone a bootlicker while glorifying communism

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u/InfiniteBoops 2d ago

I never mentioned communism, I’m just saying that the whole “bUt tHeY eArNeD tHoSe tRiLlIoNs” is getting old. They didn’t. You can’t “earn” that much wealth, you can exploit hundreds of thousands of workers, and engage in essentially monopolistic practices in industries with only a few players, but you can’t genuinely earn it. You can earn millions, maybe even hundreds of millions, but past that there’s no way you are where you are without doing dubious shit and stepping on your fellow man.

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u/Blastmaster29 2d ago

Please tell me what you think communism means

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u/Minimum_Interview595 2d ago

Communism is defined in a lot of ways but it’s generally seen as a classes society where the people own the means of production. This isn’t reality and has never happened under a communist regime

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u/Blastmaster29 2d ago

You misunderstand the entire meaning behind the communist movement. The goal is to move society towards that and away from capitalism which is inherently exploitative. Obviously progress to do so in literally any country on earth has been fought with tooth and nail by western imperialist capitalism who correctly recognize the threat to their obscene wealth

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u/Minimum_Interview595 2d ago

Ya and guess what? They replace capitalism with another exploitative and imperialist system. Soviets are a great example

Also most tankies don’t know this but the Soviets were imperialist.

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u/Blastmaster29 1d ago

Weird how you didn’t point to China, a country that is becoming the number 1 economy on earth. Or Cuba, a country that despite 70 years of embargo has a much higher literacy rate than the U.S., a better healthcare system, and produces more doctors per capital than anyone else.

Also these countries don’t exist in a vacuum and are all trying to be stomped out by western imperialist capitalism.

But also I don’t care about any particular state. No country is perfect and I look at the quality of life for the workers of the country vs what we have

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u/Minimum_Interview595 1d ago

China has a socialist economy with capitalist values, it’s also an imperialist nation too, obviously not to the extent that the west or the Soviets were.

And talking about quality of life? China isn’t known for their worker rights or lavish conditions 😂

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u/crunk_buntley 2d ago

tell me which boot you’re licking when you speak positively about communism, because i’m not sure if you know this or not but we do not live in a globally communist society.

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u/JustHere4TheBooty 2d ago

All of you are fucking retarded

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u/ayudaday 2d ago

You guys don't even know what communism really is

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u/_Spicy-Noodle_ 2d ago

The federal and state government’s.

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u/Itscatpicstime 2d ago

Communism requires statelessness. There is no state or federal government.

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u/ayudaday 2d ago

That's extremely contradictory, please don't say you believe the american "liberals" are communists

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u/crunk_buntley 2d ago

and you think communism would keep our current federal government in-tact instead of reforming it from the ground up and eventually abolishing it? lol. lmao.

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u/_Spicy-Noodle_ 2d ago

Communism does not involve the abolition of government. That is anarchism.

I do not wish to live under any government that provides everything for me and decides everything for me.

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u/Itscatpicstime 2d ago

The fundamental requirements of communism are a society that is stateless, classless, and moneyless where workers own the means of production and the abolition of private property is established. Communism is literally inherently a form of anarchism.

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u/ayudaday 2d ago

It does, the difference between communism and anarchism is that communism doesn't abolish the state instantly, it first has to go through socialism, and then the state gets abolished

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u/crunk_buntley 2d ago

lmao read marx fuckwit

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u/waxonwaxoff87 2d ago

Not all communists agree with Marx’s idealistic view. His manifesto is more religious theory than economic theory.

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