Capitalism and socialism are a pendulum, acting as a response to each other and the exploitation of the flaws in the system. The real enemy is authoritarianism which defends whichever system is in power at the time.
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Brilliant.
I am pretty sure that this honest leftist self-criticism thing is against online decency rules and I demand to see the manager.
Ok, so Two-Tone-Beard-Man is Marx, Slightly-Darker-Beard-Man is Engels, but who are Long-Beard-Man and Auntie-Glasses-Lady? I ask because Long-Beard-Man appears to be the winner of the heated exchange at the end...
Mikhail Bakunin and Emma Goldman, both are anarchists. It's below the comic on the source :)
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Marxican stand-off
Potentially controversial opinion: Just like capitalism, communism also needs to be regulated so as to not get exploited by a powerful few.
Any political system requires vigilant population, which needs education, which means we're fucked no matter the system we're living under because most people rather tune out 'the noise' and live their lives being blissfully ignorant.
I’d be ok being under the rule of an open source AI— not today’s AI, but like, at this point I’d trust a robot more than I’d trust a human in leadership.
There would still be disagreements on how to program the AI. A super intelligent AI with information about everything could probably find the best way to reach any goal, but how do we define what are our goals in the first place, and how they're prioritized? And what constraints they are on the actions of the AI state?
There's a quote I've heard, I think it's from Alexandre Grothendiek: " There's no systematic way to go from the knowledge of what it to the knowledge of what should be", that sums it up pretty well.
IDK man. AI generally reproduces existing biases, and who is going to control those who control the AI?
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If the people are the true means of production, then wouldn't seizing the means of production mean slavery? 🤔
It's not slavery, the workers seize control over themselves.
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" ALEXA, define power vacuum."