• Bazell@lemmy.zip
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    Anon opens a history book.

    Sees communism examples.

    Looks closer.

    It’s an obvious dictatorship with aspects of slavery.

    Finds capitalism examples.

    Looks closer.

    It’s a non-obvious dictatorship with aspects of slavery.

    Anon is confused and throws book away.

    • "There are not enough good examples for me to believe that something can be good. " - he says.
    • village604@adultswim.fan
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      22 hours ago

      The fact that communism hasn’t ever worked on a large scale without authoritarianism should tell you something.

      • Sylvartas@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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        21 hours ago

        Or the fact that it hasn’t ever worked on a large scale without authoritarianism due to a wildly uneven distribution of resources and capital before communism happened

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    “this is the future the left wants under COMMIESOCIALMARXISM!”

    dystopian picture of current day late-stage-capitalism in the US

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      Nope, it’s the nature of hierarchies and gaps in human perception that happen to line up, not our intrinsic nature. We can build something more than this, it’s just slightly harder to do.