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• SatansMaggotyCumFart@piefed.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Is that why communist states have an authoritarian leader?

  To keep the commies in line?

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  • daannii@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    There is no true communism present in the world.

    Calling something “communist” doesn’t make it so.

    Hitler called his party “socialist”. It was not.

    We call our country a democracy.

    It’s an oligarchy.

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    • SatansMaggotyCumFart@piefed.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      True capitalism hasn’t been attempted either.

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      • daannii@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        We are living in capitalism.

        The world is capitalism.

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  • IAMgROOT@lemmy.wtf ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    communist state is like triangular circle

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    • rockerface@lemmy.cafe ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Careful, that kind of talk gets you banned on .ml

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      • SarahValentine@pawb.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        Imagine that - a bullet that dodges you!

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    • Cowbee@lemmy.ml ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Sure, but before you get to communism there’s socialism, which has a worker state.

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  • CultuurMarxist@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    That’s so we can kill as many people as effectively as possible.

    Serious answer all revolutions limited to a single region or country collapse into reactionary autoritarianism because you can’t build a post capitalist country surrounded by capitalist countries without experiencing some imperialism.

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    • SatansMaggotyCumFart@piefed.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Aren’t you worried that the earth will become reactionary autoritarianism being surrounded by capitalist planets as it is?

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      • CultuurMarxist@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        You think the ISS is going to do imperialism on earth.

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• PattyMcB@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  I agree with the cum fart (Seriously).

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  • AppleTea@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Markets incentivize and reward selfish behavior. A different system would incentivize different behaviors.

    I swear, it’s like we’re stuck in the 20th century when it comes to this. It’s like designing a multiplayer game. Throw a thousand people in a RUST server, they’ll behave one way. Throw that same thousand into Deep Rock Galactic, they behave completely differently.

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    • blarghly@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      I mean, I feel like you are weirdly close to my view. Incentives matter.

      I’m not sure why you think that markets are inherently bad, though, or what incentive structure you think would be a better alternative.

      Personally, my view is that markets are a naturally occurring phenomenon in any sufficiently large and complex human society, and if we try to design a society without them, we will simply create bad outcomes, like the rise of a wealthy and powerful criminal class.

      My view is that, absent a better (and importantly, proven) structure, the best structure we have yet developed integrates markets into society in a pro-social manner. We allow legal markets, but create rules and guardrails to align incentives, so that the individual’s work benefits both themselves and society as a whole.

      An analogy I like is that of a river. A completely unregulated river will ebb and flow, often help water your crops, and sometimes overflow its banks and flood your home. If you try to completely remove the river, it will not disappear - it will simply build up and overflow, causing greater floods, and depriving everyone of water. If you create a huge dam and completely control water flow, then the water will flow very consistently and you can avoid floods, but you will disrupt local water ecology, lose a lot of water to evaporation, and risk an enourmous calamity if the damn ever fails. A large dam might be the correct solution some of the time, but typically the best solution is to let the river flow mostly freely, while building small dams for water reservoirs and power generation and levees near population centers to protect against flooding. It is not just necessary but beneficial to let the river flow, but we must also protect society from its excesses.

      So, too, with markets. They are going to happen, and they provide a lot of benefits to a lot of people. But the people and the government must be protected from its excesses. We can allow people to build and own a taco truck or a cement factory or a software product and make money on it, but we can create protections, incentives, and regulations so they don’t sell us toxic food, exploit workers, or buy elections and control politicians.

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      • AppleTea@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        I was using “markets” interchangeably with “capital”. I do agree with what you, I don’t think you can escape markets as a social phenomenon, and at the same time they cannot be allowed to decide our political future. Our current setup is tantamount to ductaping the lever down on a lawnmower, and declaring that the “wisdom of the engine” knows what needs trimming.

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