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[–] NaevaTheRat@vegantheoryclub.org 21 points 1 day ago (2 children)

This image is silly though because you could just replace the text with "the sky is blue" or any other fact to make the opposite point. Like if you're going to make a political cartoon the cartoon itself needs to be making some point. Don't be like that seppo loon that just writes labels on everything.

Something like this is much funnier as the image and text play together.

[–] Cowbee@lemmy.ml 8 points 20 hours ago* (last edited 19 hours ago) (1 children)

Funny enough, in the essay Adam Smith's Socialism, the author analyzes what Smith's prediction of Socialism would look like had he been a Socialist, with his own analysis of Capitalism. Kind of a "what if?" Scenario.

[–] dessalines@lemmy.ml 4 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

Nice, I'm gonna read that soon. I do know that Adam Smith explicitly agreed with the labor theory of value, which all the capitalist economics schools reject despite venerating him.

[–] Cowbee@lemmy.ml 3 points 18 hours ago

It's a fun article! Said writer also has cool articles like analyzing Quantum Mechanics alongside Dialectical Materialism, and their articles were very helpful in my coming to understand Socialism in general. Probably going to revisit their article on Fiat currency now that I am working my way through Capital over on Hexbear.

[–] NutWrench@lemmy.ml 2 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

This. Also, whatever is going on in China and Russia is NOT "communism." Those are oligarchies, where a small number of billionaires use the news media to keep the lower and middle classes fighting with each other, while the rich keep running off with all the f*cking money.

[–] Cowbee@lemmy.ml 1 points 12 hours ago

Half right, the Russian Federation abandoned Socialism with the dissolution of the USSR. The PRC hasn't achieved Communism yet, but have a Socialist Market Economy and are run along Marxist-Leninist analysis. It isn't correct to call the PRC an "oligarchy" either, China Has Billionaires but they are subservient to the CPC, which has over 96 million people and functions in a "top down, from the bottom up" fashion. Those at the top of the CPC, in the NPC, are largely educated non-bourgeoisie.

It's interesting how many people here have succumbed to Amerikkkas propaganda machine.

I was on TikTok and went to redNOTE and just signed up as a way to say fuck you to the government. Got bored and checked it out and there lives are incredibly more impressive and full of life. Full of family and love and compassion.

If "communism" is so evil, why do they have no ~~slaves~~ prison ~~labor~~ like the Amerikkkas? Free healthcare? Little to no homelessness? Accepting of others who are different?

We can't have that communism in this country! That's not Amerikkka enough! We need to make people afraid to live as we the people are the capatilisms resources. We are not the people.

[–] dessalines@lemmy.ml 43 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (2 children)

Socialism works

From here

Examples from this post by /u/bayarea415, Stephen Gowans - Do publicly owned, planned economies work, Ian Goodrum - Socialism vs Capitalism and quality of life, and yogthos's USSR acheivements post about the USSR specifically:

When it is claimed that a system works, we should ask, who it works for. Capitalism benefits a tiny number of rapacious capitalists, to the detriment of the rest of us, while Socialism works for the masses.


Now let's take a look at what happens after the USSR collapsed, and what came with capitalist privatization:

For an overview of the soviet experiment, watch this brilliant talk by Micheal Parenti, or read his article, Left anticommunism, the unkindest cut.

Also read this great article by Stephen Gowans, Do publicly owned, planned economies work?. Audio on youtube

[–] humanspiral@lemmy.ca 4 points 1 day ago (1 children)

https://medium.com/@RichieBrownShow/communist-nostalgia-as-the-reality-of-bourgeois-democracy-hits-home-in-eastern-europe-3960aa341560

The most intriguing of these is Ukraine with 2nd highest "communist notalgia" fondness. The survey was done in 2013. You may be aware of a drama thread against you posted yesterday where US nazi empire sympathizing simps circle jerk around denying basic history and current events in Ukraine. Possibly as a result of this survey, CIA/State department invested so much in NGOs to "westernize" youth with agenda of delivering them to the small diehard nazi cohort as rulership class after 2014 black flag operations and coup.

I wonder how much of the nostalgia is that the 60s and 70s provided an easier job environment without pressure for new skills. USA would probably also have a preferred nostalgia for that period, despite draft and Israel related submission pushback. Throughout first and second world, a steep rise in inequality and oligarchy resulted from 1980s afterwards, though Yeltsin corruption was especially bad.

In terms of annecdotes, I do know Yougoslavian friends whose parents could afford cars and summer cottages. But then affording a car in western europe was also easy, and homes in the west, fairly easy. I would say the very strong corruption in elections and media mind control serving oligarchy and empire was the defining moment in manufacturing modern misery.

[–] PolandIsAStateOfMind@lemmy.ml 6 points 18 hours ago* (last edited 18 hours ago)

I'm not really surprised by Ukraine, over 70% voted in the referendum against dissolution of USSR and thus also against independence of Ukraine. Since then they had 4 US coups to keep them in line.

[–] Pesopes@lemm.ee 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Couldn't believe that 77% percent of Czechs said that they are worse off now. And in the source you provide there's only that 23% think it's better now. I really don't know what to say to everyone praising the USSR after hearing stories from my whole family about how so grateful they are that it's over.

[–] SubArcticTundra@lemmy.ml 1 points 11 hours ago

Am Czech, the average person is genuinely better off today (at least materially) than during communism. You would need to wait years to get a telephone, car, or TV

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