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fusir wrote

Alright, well then you guys need to fix your branding problem because we seem to have no idea who the left is and I don't think that's our fault.

I'm refering to the acting left, as they exist now. I am a big fan of distinguishing between politicians and constituency within a political identity. It was pretty clear I was talking about the political structure and not the constituency. So it should be obvious that I wasn't calling people in unicorn communism oligarchs. Find me an applied communism without money. Soviet, Venzuela, China, and even NK all have money. Children litterally pay for their own public education in NK, with cash. It's very obvious that lobbiests and unicorn communism have never met so seeing as I'm talking about interacitions with lobbiests I'm clearly talking about within a bipartisan democratic system. Within our context of a bipartisan democratic system the "left" of it are the easier to shake down for govt money by cronyists.

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Defasher wrote (edited )

I couldn't care less what you think of the left, personally. Democrats aren't leftists, they're liberals like you conservatives. "Acting left" is bunk. "Applied communism" is bunk. Either there's no money and state or it's not communism.

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coinphrase wrote

How does retirement work in communism? Also, is there a military?

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BabyCroc wrote (edited )

In communism the society looks after itself, so everyone is cared for. It means you can retire a lot earlier than under capitalism. And if you're unable to work, you'll still be provided for.

As for a military, there would only be defensive militias as the need arises. There would be no need to invade other lands, all imperialism is rejected by communism.

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coinphrase wrote

How does communism have the power to transform people from self serving idiots, criminals and power hungry psychopaths to good, caring people that would join together to take care of retirees? It seems like most of our problems today are social problems, does communism have anything to do with that, or is that separate. If separate then wouldn't those problems have to be solved first, in order to bring about this model society where we all take care of each other?

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BabyCroc wrote (edited )

By removing the very concepts of power, money and hierarchy so we no longer have to compete with each other to climb higher on the pyramid. Instead, everyone is given the same resources. The same cut of the pie.

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coinphrase wrote

How does one remove those concepts from people's minds though? Would people be punished for illegally creating their own power hierarchies, after real communism has been realized. I'm talking about enforcing it after it is has been perfectly achieved. What does that look like? Who's job is it to enforce the laws and do they not have more power than the others?

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________deleted wrote

If you're talking about someone trying to declare themselves king, why would millions of people that are now free put up with that? They'd tear him limb from limb.

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coinphrase wrote (edited )

Does that mean there are no leaders, because leadership implies power and that power could then be abused if the leader had enough people following them. What kinds of laws would there be to stop people from killing each other and saying that the reason they did so was to stop the other person from gaining too much power? Where is the objectivity in that? Are there laws in communism that prevent others from having and exerting power? If so then who enforces those laws, who is the expert on those laws that gets the final say. Is it the least common denominator or is it whatever opinion is the most popular, is there a vote?

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foggymorn wrote

Lmao @ you repeating liberal media nonsense that NK etc are communist.

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chaos wrote

You have no clue what you're talking about. It's frankly embarrassing how uneducated Americans are. American 'Democrats' are center-right in the US, and far right by any international standard. They have nothing to do with the left.

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coinphrase wrote

Are you really embarrassed or is that just something you learned to say? If you're American and embarrassed by your fellow Americans because of their personal beliefs, then it's safe to say that you feel superior to others, that you think you are better somehow. If not, then why embarrassed, why not frustrated or sad? There is a certain amount of disdain implied with saying you are embarrassed by people you don't know and who probably don't care about you or what you think. In your marxist fantasy, you stand high on a peak alone, a beacon of equality placed above all others.

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