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|    citizen winston smith to Intelligent Party    |
|    Re: Your opinions on communism    |
|    30 Aug 24 10:07:43    |
      XPost: sac.politics, alt.california, ca.politics       XPost: ny.politics, nyc.politics       From: sss@example.de              On 8/29/2024 2:02 PM, Intelligent Party wrote:       > On 5/18/2024 2:28 PM, Kirk Spragg wrote:       >> Hey Victoria though we'd best move that conversation about communism       >> from FSX to here.       >>       >> ma> I am a Marxist-Leninist... aka communist/bolshevik/(derogaatory by       >> ultra       >> ma>leftists and liberals) tankie       >> ma> I am a super strong avocate for 20th century Socialism       >> ma> which is worker's state, centrally planned economy, means of       >> production ma>seized       >> ma>by workers, and no markets       >>       >> Though I'm definitely on the left, I'd have to say that history & the       >> soviet union's failure to keep up with the west illustrate that a       >> centrally planned economy just doesn't work well.       >>       >> ma> under capitalism there is severe exploitation       >> ma> under socialism exploitation is non existant       >> ma> exploitation is where someone who dose not contribute to society       >> live off ma> the       >> ma> labor of others. aka the capitalist. they live off the labor because       >> they ma> own       >> ma> the factories etc. aka the means of production       >>       >> Again history shows that just isn't the case, at uni I met a number of       >> Russian and east european academics all of whom had horror stories of how       >> just how exploitative Russia's socalist state was to its people.       >>       >> Similarly I know several Chinese Ex-Pats who say similar things about       >> the CCP & how things are run in China.       >>       >> How do you envisage a new communist partly/state avoiding this?       >>       >> ... White dwarf seeks red giant for binary relationship.       >       >       > 1) All big businesses started small. Microsoft started in someone's       > basement.              Non sequitur, Rudey.              > 2) 50% of the American economy is small businesses.              https://advocacy.sba.gov/2019/01/30/small-businesses-generate-44       percent-of-u-s-economic-activity/              ...and dropping...              > 3) If the state is ever going to wither away, and it's going to be a       > Utopia as Karl Marx said, then why don't the Communists just say no one       > owns anything today unless they're carrying it?              Because they would be shot on sight, as you deserve to be.              > 4) Why not just raise the minimum wage to 50% per capita GDP after taxes?              Because we would have rapid hyper-inflation and a wicked systemic crash.                     > 5) And have free education, and 1/2 minimum wage to non-earners. i.e.       > more Socialism, not Communism.              Socialism is a transitory state to communism, it precedes the       totalitarianism that steps in to control a wrecked economy, you moron.                     > 6) Why does the government have to own all the means of production?              Because they are totalitarians.              > Why not just some of the means of food production.              Not the charter of giverment, leftard.              > Or, what if businesses       > merely couldn't ever pay dividends, what would the difference even be?              Wreckage of senior and fixed income investors, duh.              > At the moment I'm not sure how you can restrict spending on high       > salaries though,              Nor should anyone.              > ultimately, everyone should get equal pay (or       > consumption) for an hour worked at anything is obvious.              No it's not.              Did a surgeon spend as much on his education as a barista?              You fucking insolent leftard scum.                     > We're all equal       > in cost and expense and Spirit.              That's CommieLa grade word salad.              > We differ temporarily in assets until       > everyone has everything.              That is communistic CRAP!              > Pay (in Capitalism) is a return on capital, for       > instance your skills and education, more than your labor.              You've no proof of what portion of this economy repays student debt over       the lifetime of a worker.              > 7) Saving is what Capitalism does better than Communism.              Yes, you at last got one right.              > Capitalists       > don't consume everything they produce.              There's two.              > China has been saving, and so       > Communism has apparently worked out a bit there.              Yes, if you like being slave labor in a sweatshop it's areal hoot.              You are utter filth, Rudey!              --- SoupGate-DOS v1.05        * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)    |
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