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      Communism is covert fascism? Why then did fascists round up and kill communists? The two are wholeheartedly opposed to each other.

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        Fanatics often hate those that are only slightly different from themselves the most. See Catholics vs protestants.

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        It’s ok, communists only rounded up and killed millions…and caused millions more to die of starvation…but it’s ok because fascist killed them in WW II…

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          Some governments who got put into power under the promise of communism did stray away from their promise of communism and statelessness into authoritarianism, and it killed people, yes. Capitalism has also killed and is killing as we speak, so I’m curious why it’s “okay” in their case.

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            The main issue with communism is that it puts the entire control of the economy in a few people’s hands. Even more so than capitalism does.

            When that happens, the central planning that those people do, even in the best case is orders of magnitude less efficient than capitalism can manage.

            And in the usual case, ends up with them funneling much of the resources to their buddies and letting others starve (a la holodomor).

            Anyhow, it’s an argument that is about 100 years out of date. The Scandinavians solved this problem half a century ago already. The best thing we can do is have capitalism control production and distribution of goods and services, and democratic government’s socialist policies drive the resources where they need to go and solve the many economic externalities endemic in any capitalistic system.

            A better solution, as yet, has not been demonstrated. Anyone advocating “pure communism” or “pure capitalism” is a rube.

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              When that happens, the central planning that those people do, even in the best case is orders of magnitude less efficient than capitalism can manage.

              There was one promising solution to that which was attempted back in the early 70’s: Combine Cybernetics with Socialism.

              Unfortunately the CIA instituted a coup in Chile to install a dictator more favorable to multinational business interests before it could be implemented.

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                I didn’t watch the whole video, but it sounds very similar to what The Venus Project has in mind.

                My feeling about this is that it unfortunately suffers from many of the same problems as communism. In that there will be some group of people who control the computers that make all the decisions, and over time those people will tilt the playing field in their favor and the rest will suffer.

                Open source could mitigate this to some degree, but there will still be an “intelligencia” owning the code and having massive incentives for abusing it.

                Best just not to have a system where such incentives exist IMO

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                  I’m familiar with the Venus Project, I don’t believe there is much overlap in their ideas.

                  In that there will be some group of people who control the computers that make all the decisions, and over time those people will tilt the playing field in their favor and the rest will suffer.

                  This is likely true with Communism, but could be almost entirely mitigated if done using Anarchist (like Peter Kropotkin style anarchism) principles. Instead of an all powerful state controlling the reins which would inevitably breed corruption, this concept of cybernetics could be applied in a federated way, where smaller communities could hook-up to this cybernetic collective, which would allow for greater cohesion and collaboration between directly democratic communities.

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              Agreed to this! Communism means that people can’t be the owners of a buisness or anything at all. Thoose mixed economies where government-based (communist) companies compete along with individual’s buisness should be enought to make the best of two worlds. But still should be implemented correctly and you might also want to consider governments making some limitation on other private companies anti-competatively though. If government behaves well within this mixed economy then it will be cool i guess

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                Yes, antitrust, consumer protection, health and welfare programs, and pollution taxes are starkly missing in many of todays capitalist countries, first and foremost being the USA.

                Though I must admit I don’t understand what you mean by that people can’t own things in capitalist societies. I would say there’s maybe too much ownership in capitalism.

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            It’s not, neither case is ok, but communism has been tried many times and always ends in authoritarianism. This communist utopia is a myth. At least with capitalism I’m not starving or have nothing for my labor.

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              At least with capitalism I’m not starving or have nothing for my labor.

              Ah nice self-unmasking. “I am comfortable under capitalism and it could be worse for me so thats why I don’t want to even consider something else where no-one had to starve while food is available or be homeless while millions of houses stand empty.” You are just selfish and afraid.

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                It’s also known as intellectual humility. A person is allowed to think of their own self interest, and speaking of one’s own experience is the most based form of communication because it holds the highest certainty.

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                Yes because I forgot how china and Russia and north Korea all kindly take care of their homeless and special needs people…o wait they just euthanize them.

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              This utopia that capitalism works well only does in a vacuum, looking at the westernp/“developed” world. Half the world’s population lives on less than $7 a day. Most people objectively have close to nothing to show for their labor.

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                Under capitalism those people who earn the least are improving their lot rapidly. That $7 a day you’re citing was $2 a day about 20 years ago.

                Under communism people who are doing fine descend into poverty and starvation. Not “food insecurity” where they have all the doritos they could ever want, but actual starvation where they eat their neighbors to survive.

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        It’s like two communists Stalin and Trotskey, fighting against each other for power. Trotskey was defeated, exiled and later assassinated

        Communism is fascism under a different name. Every communist country in the past or present has been a fascist totalitarian state

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          no, fascism is nothing like communism outside of being authoritarian, but fascism is capitalistic for sure.

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      From my limited understanding, Marxism comes off as more of a lense to analyze politics and human behavior than an actual system. It also comes off as not very fascist, but fascist seeming things can come out of it, depending on your perspective. I will admit I’m not very educated in regards to political science, and I’ve just begun my foray into Marxist theory.

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          I can’t disagree with that. I think the sort of utopia that communism suggests is a natural progression back to our roots as a species, and will happen, but only after we’ve pushed for it AND survived through an inevitable apocalypse, because we done royally fucked up tbh. For right now? Well I’m just a blue collar American with no degree. I don’t know. I think socialist structure needs to be implemented for sure though, just to stop the people whove captured the wealth from royally screwing all of us over. I am not educated, or indoctrinated enough to actually debate you beyond that. In fact, I kind of just avoid people, so I’m probably not the best leftist to debate you at all.

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          Yeah, but recall that any communist system attempted was being trampled by the capitalist countries (still is). Marxist-Leninism calls for “leaders” to guide the masses, which is definitely a straight path to another two-class system(see, USSR). Communism calls for a democratic system, which isn’t really compatible with ML (in my understanding)

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      Capitalism literally turns to fascism to stay relevant as it makes life really bad for most people. This is such a laughably bad take.

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      fascist

      Marxist/ Communist

      Those two things are opposites…you buzzword concern troll

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        Opposite likes north and south are opposites? Or opposites like apples and oranges are opposites.

        Fascism and communism are both:

        • authoritarian attempts
        • to improve socieity
        • by radically changing economic relations
        • from consensual trade to slavery
        • to support a massive war effort
        • designed to get the rest of the world under the same authoritarian regime
        • resulting in millions of battlefield deaths
        • and the deaths of millions of enslaved citizens
        • by overwork, disease, starvation
        • and outright systematic execution

        But one’s “left wing” and the other is “right wing” so they could be described as “opposites”.

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          you have anything that isn’t Carl-“what nationalist”-Tucker ranting on Fox News?

          first off, Fascists didn’t try to change any economic relations, in fact a lot of the NAZI party members were staunch capitalists, People like Ford were lauded as great men of commerce and industry for their success in economics, the Nazis even privatized stuff that was public during the Weimar years.

          And why wouldn’t authoritarians like capitalism? the modern workplace literally resembles the fascist dream, you have the CEO (führer) with his cadre of upper management (close political aids/figures) middle and lower management as an enforcement mechanism with limited decision-making powers (Gestapo/SA/SS) and the good workers.

          and in the USA the ultra capitalists even have the fun social Darwinism bit going on (13/50 anyone?)

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            Fascists didn’t try to change any economic relations

            They had labor camps where they used slave labor to further the war effort. Slavery was imposed upon people for whom economic interactions had previously been consensual and free.

            Why wouldn’t authorizations like capitalism?

            Because it is an economic system based on consensual exchange. That’s why it’s referred to as a “free market” system.

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              Well, first off, I will remind you that the great slave nations were almost all Capitalist.

              Secondly, Capitalism is not based on consensual exchange, and no free market means no government interference, the fact that we have laws against slavery inherently mean the market is LESS free, Capitalism is an economic system where power is mainly held by the capital holders, instead of the workers.

              Ironically, Capitalism can function perfectly fine with planed, and authoritarian economies… like it did during Nazi Germany.

              then again, I don’t expect someone spouting the old Glenbech shit to actually know anything about economic and political ideologies…