Makes me so mad how many people in general will agree on the world’s issues right up to the point I use the word “capitalism”.
Like, I know it sounds stupid, but the clue is literally in the name. What is taking you all so long?
For GenX much more than later generations, they were exposed to propaganda as children saying that the main alternative to capitalism was tankies. So if you criticize capitalism, then you must support Stalin.
It still seems to be a thing, that the only possible communism is post Stalin USSR (or 21st century China).
Not discussed often is the degree to which western industrialist interests aggressively acted to sabotage efforts for societies to form an egalitarian socialist democracy. Both the British empire and the US empire are guilty of this, often to the point of brutally overthrowing such governments in favor of puppet dictatorships.
So one criticism of communism might be that they are susceptible to intervention by larger bullyish states, but that’s true of any society, regardless of how it’s organized.
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Makes me so mad how many people in general will agree on the world’s issues right up to the point I use the word “capitalism”. Like, I know it sounds stupid, but the clue is literally in the name. What is taking you all so long?
For GenX much more than later generations, they were exposed to propaganda as children saying that the main alternative to capitalism was tankies. So if you criticize capitalism, then you must support Stalin.
It still seems to be a thing, that the only possible communism is post Stalin USSR (or 21st century China).
Not discussed often is the degree to which western industrialist interests aggressively acted to sabotage efforts for societies to form an egalitarian socialist democracy. Both the British empire and the US empire are guilty of this, often to the point of brutally overthrowing such governments in favor of puppet dictatorships.
So one criticism of communism might be that they are susceptible to intervention by larger bullyish states, but that’s true of any society, regardless of how it’s organized.
Propaganda, baby