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[–] [email protected] 27 points 1 month ago (26 children)

Read Marx, everyone, especially people that don't think they need to.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I would like to add David Graeber to that, and Kropotkin even. I don't mean to start a snowball effect that turns this into a huge list, but I feel like not enough people (especially the average person) know about them; especially Graeber who is a lot more modern.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

Kropotkine was a sweetie.

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[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 month ago

Communism A system of government where the country's wealth is concentrated into a small, ruling class of billionaires, who use the news media they own to keep the lower classes fighting with each other while they . . . the rich . . . run off with all the farking money.

Oh wait. that's capitalism. I don't know how I got those two systems confused.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 month ago

Oh, the sharpening of that French tech for just such occasions.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 month ago

Long-windedness is the soul of wit.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago (3 children)

I disagree, I think socialism can and will beat capitalism eventually.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 month ago

This meme isn't saying Socialism will not prevail. Rather, it's saying that even though Socialists can't individually beat Capitalism right now, as Capitalism decays Socialists increase in number and Capitalists weaken in strength, making Socialist victory more probable over time.

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

And a strongman dictator usually beats socialism

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

true the world's capitalist countries are not susceptible to this

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

Yes, the socialists have definitely been winning this epic fight.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago (1 children)

The point of the meme is that as Capitalism deteriorates, and it must deteriorate, more Workers become aligned with Leftists and at some point there will be a shift from quantitative to qualitative, ie at some level there will be a dramatic change, like the boiling point of water.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

Cool cool. LMK

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

So much winning

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

Was there some new supercasper series or something?

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