• Signtist@lemm.ee
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    5 个月前

    Watch out guys, if we keep letting our presidents openly commit crimes without consequence and send legal citizens to death camps on a whim, we might someday eventually end up becoming authoritarian!

  • glimmer_twin [he/him]@hexbear.net
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    5 个月前

    US has always been authoritarian if you aren’t wealthy and preferably white. Ask the black panthers, MOVE, George Floyd, the victims of McCarthyism, those killed at Blair Mountain, native Americans…

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      And what would you suggest as an alternative to capitalism? (genuinely curious)

      The divide between rich & poor seems to be expanding.

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        Communism, plain and simple.

        Capitalism, and the capitalists that own the real estate and goods production, will cozy up to fascist regimes to protect their investments and profits, every time. There will always be someone who takes the money and the fascists will gladly trade money for the legitimacy that the capitalists provide.

          • hexthismess [he/him, comrade/them]@hexbear.net
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            5 个月前

            Communism is not designed nor intended to accumulate power to either a small group of people or a dictator of that’s what you mean by authoritarian. Communism establishes that the common people hold the power over the elite/rich because otherwise, the rich and elite will use their money and therefore power to erode any gains the people make.

            Communism is authoritarian?

            What do you mean by authoritarian?

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              Every implementation started with the centralisation of power. And never transitioned outside of it no matter how hard you quote lenin.

              It always ends with red fascism, get it through your thick skulls.

      • Bloobish [comrade/them]@hexbear.net
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        Communism, like straight up. And don’t bring up “failures” cuss you also have Cuba which has survived and maintained a good quality of life with low resource input but astounding life expectancy all under embargo by the US, Vietnam which most of the world ignores but has created some amazing outcomes for internal productive forces. There’s also China, and please don’t start with “but it’s not communist”, because name me a capitalist state that willingly and readily executes billionaires and millionaires on a regular basis for abusing citizenry and violating the law.