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[–] duderium@hexbear.net 32 points 1 year ago (2 children)

This is cool but there's still a big leap to be taken between disliking capitalism and actually advocating for communism. A year or two ago a friend of mine admitted that capitalism is fucked, but he couldn't bring himself to support communism because he thinks that communism basically means universal concentration camps. "You get a concentration camp! And you get a concentration camp!" It's common enough for people to admit that things are fucked up, but their solution usually revolves around electing good capitalist puppets to replace the bad capitalist puppets, and/or to do some kind of genocide against minorities who have nothing to do with societal problems. Plenty of these respondents probably believe that something like "crony capitalism" is at fault and that we need to go back to the good old days when a man could get ahead if he worked hard (i.e., during the enclosures).

[–] TreadOnMe@hexbear.net 24 points 1 year ago

There is a particular irony about the proletarian from the country with the highest prisoner population per capita (probably of all time) thinking that 'communism' means 'concentration camps'.

[–] goldfish@hexbear.net 15 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It seems like anarchism is the trendy replacement for capitalism these days. It fits better with the Western ideal of individualism. And I get it, it would be great if we could all just do whatever we want and not have anyone tell us what to do, but it's not practical. Like government is gonna be around for the foreseeable future and insisting on anarchism kinda prevents working on a better government

[–] tocopherol@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

'All do whatever and no one tell us what to do,' there is a lot more to anarchism than that though. You can work on a better government currently while still striving for the ultimate removal of the state.

[–] goldfish@hexbear.net 1 points 1 year ago

yeah, I know there is more to it, but doesn't it still ultimately boil down to that? even if "we" is small communities rather than individuals