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“You will be more conservative as you grow older” (lemmy.ml)

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

I'm somewhat familiar with the principals, but not enough to thoroughly explain them in a casual conversation.

It's definitely eye-opening to contextualize things like Nationalism, Fascism, Colonialism, and Imperialism within the Capitalist mode of production

Edited my comment to distinguish between genuine socialism and the welfare of corporations being socialized thru taxpayer money for their benefit and our expense.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 weeks ago

You may want to swing back to Principles of Communism as well as Socialism: Utopian and Scientific by Engels, then Wage Labor and Capital as well as Value, Price and Profit by Marx before getting into Lenin if you're not confident in the basics of Marxism. Lenin is Marxism applied to early 1900s Capitalism, which has largely grown along the lines he analyzed and predicted (among numerous other analysis in theory and practice).