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Can we have happy moments under capitalism or are we destined to always be miserable under it? (lemmygrad.ml)

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 5 months ago (1 children)

That’s a mythos pushed by capitalism as part of the portrayal of history as a linear progression of improvement with capitalism being justified as part of that improvement.

This is the reality I'm afraid. Capitalism is most definitely a necessary stage, as Lenin would agree.

Capitalism has its uses, as the Chinese model clearly shows. Under a DOTP only, it must be controlled and dismantled piece by piece. Otherwise it will take over all democratic institutions, enslave people in perpetuity, at least until it destroys the environment. If I were living in Feudal times, I would advocate for Capitalism as a furthering of history. You cannot skip this phase as the USSR found out.

....were inherently more savage before and have now “evolved”

There was certainly a gap of justice and life was shorter due to lack of medical progress. It's just historical fact and not chauvinistic to point this out.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 5 months ago

I was wondering if a misunderstanding of China was fueling this nonsense. China is a DOTP as you described. We are talking about a dictatorship of capital, not a DOTP. These are two different things. How can you talk to me of "realities" when you bastardize the distinctions between concepts, conflate the kind of system a country such as the US has vs. China, say "you can't skip this phase" based on a single socialist project the USSR (attempting to push a universalized dogma off of one example while ignoring all of the other factors that went into the USSR's history as compared to China's, completely antithetical to a scientific approach to socialism).

You do not know what you're talking about and no amount of votes on a web forum will change that fact.