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[–] [email protected] 19 points 2 weeks ago (13 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 weeks ago (4 children)

Limits personal freedoms only for the owning class. If you're not a landlord or ceo you have nothing to fear.

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 weeks ago (17 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 weeks ago (5 children)
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[–] [email protected] 23 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

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

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 weeks ago (5 children)

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

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[–] [email protected] 34 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 2 weeks ago (15 children)

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

[–] [email protected] -1 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

I've played civilization and I'm pretty sure there's other forms of government besides Communism and Monarchy that have low corruption, albeit lacking the ability to force the citizens into war on the leader's whim.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 weeks ago

Lol, good bit.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 weeks ago

Isnt civilization the game where "democracy" has 0 corruption? I think its kinda biased and not exactly based on reality

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

It is the symptom, not the cause. Greed is the cause and it has been around a LOT longer than Capitalism.

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[–] [email protected] 15 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (2 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 weeks ago (5 children)

What's your evidence for your the root of evil is that some people just have an "evil" gene theory?

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[–] [email protected] -1 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Amazing! (commenting so there aren't 88 comments 😤)

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 weeks ago
[–] [email protected] -1 points 3 weeks ago

Keep pulling until you get hierarchy out.

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