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[–] [email protected] 29 points 1 month ago (41 children)

I don't know what it's like to live under communism, but I do know what it's like to live under capitalism and it's grip tightens more and more with every passing year.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (40 children)

I don't think anyone knows what it's like, was there any communist country which wasn't also both a dictatorship and poor?

Pretty hard seeing the good and bad of communism when it's always alongside the two worse things that can happen to a country.

P.S. Wait, actually not the two worse things... there's also war, and that applies to most of them too.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 month ago (23 children)
[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Capitalism doesn't benefit the vast majority of us. But the purpose of capitalism is to enrich a fortunate few at the expense of the rest of us who will be reduced to perpetual wage slavery until we die. Capitalism is working a treat in that regard.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago

That point is def made in that link.

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