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What good do luxury apartments do that no one can afford? (crosspost from !leftymemes@lemmy.dbzer0.com) (lemmy.ml)

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how do you think the homelessness problem would be solved from a socialist/communist perspective?

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[–] folaht@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Lawmakers do not fight monopolies.
Lawmakers serve the merchant class,
and any laws protecting it will be circumvented.

The only exception is when
the lawyer class fears a socialist revolution
and decides to take a left turn
within the capitalist system,
going full social democracy,
in order to preserve the capitalist system,
as an alternative to taking the fascist route,
which the US did when FDR came to power,
which ended with Nixon's administration.

The German lawyer class right now serves the US merchant class. They have been since 1945 and 1990.
Laws protecting German workers stem from the FDR-Johnson era.
It is also on the brink of collapse as the German lawyer class decided to hand over everything to the US oligarchs.

Germany's present day problem is a total collapse of its merchant class from what's left of it.
It's bread and butter, the German car industry is about to go down soon.

There is no left turn coming to the rescue from the US this time around.
The US no longer fears a socialist revolution from the worker and academic classes imitating the USSR, while its raw power is fading instead of rising on the world stage and thus has decided to take the fascist route.