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Communist Filth/Capitalist Filth (lemmy.ml)
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[-] AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world 6 points 10 months ago

Saying that any existing communist party looks like what we, or theory, want(s), is like saying that North Korea is a Democratic Republic because it's part of the name. Authoritarians love corrupting the meaning of words so they can keep people ignorant.

[-] OurToothbrush@lemmy.ml 0 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

NK's highest legislative body is a multiparty parliament elected directly by the people.

"Oh but the communists dominate"

Yeah, because they do popular things and have a popular political program compared to the other parties.

Is it more democratic when no one party is popular because all of them don't help the proletariat and power is a hot potato passed to whatever bourgeois party fucked the people the longest time ago?

[-] Ktastic@lemmy.ml -3 points 10 months ago

Right, which would also hold true for capitalism... Thus mooting the original point.

[-] Traister101@lemmy.today 17 points 10 months ago

Capitalism is sadly doing exactly what it's designed to do there's just a lot of propaganda to mislead you such as the infamous trickle down economics idea

[-] AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world 4 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Not really. The US has completely unchecked capitalism if you aren't wealthier than $100,000,000, as does the rest of the world thanks to a court that the IMF set up. If your country has a resource the capitalists want to exploit, and the people or government don't allow it, they will sue you in this international court and use the US military to impose fines of billions of dollars per year in "lost revenue." Much of Africa and South America can tell you all about it.

Capitalism and communism are economic systems not political theory.

[-] purahna@lemmygrad.ml 2 points 10 months ago

ah yes because politics (the management of people at large scale) and economics (the management of things people need to live at large scale) are totally unrelated and have no intrinsic links

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