• MonkRome@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    I AM left wing, have read about many social theories in my life all over the spectrum. There isn’t much one can do to distill that down to one post. Not one of the solutions to communisms problems I’ve seen in my lifetime are ever very fair or realistic. It comes with all of the same problems as capitalism as it pertains to power and it is infinitely less agile than capitalism. You can get to nearly the same place that communism wants to get, by adapting socialist ideals into capitalism while keeping capitalisms agility in the marketplace of needs.

    • Graylitic@lemm.ee
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      1 year ago

      I’m sorry, but you’ve made a number of blanket statements here with nothing to back it up, combined with a failure to address the very fact that your point on bullshit jobs was already thoroughly debunked by Marx.

      1. If you’ve read Marx, why do you think people are advocating paying sewage workers the same as office workers? There are even methods that suggest working fewer hours for the same pay with regards to how strenuous it is.

      2. How can you consider yourself left wing if you reject Socialism in favor of Capitalism? That’s just a centrist or right-winger.

      3. How does Communism “come with all of the same power problems as Capitalism” if Communism is fundamentally democratic, and Capitalism fundamentally anti-democratic?

      4. How is Capitalism more agile than Communism?

      5. How can you say Capitalism can nearly get to a Stateless, Classless, Moneyless society when it depends on all 3 to exist?

      6. How can you “adapt Socialist ideas into Capitalism” when Capitalism and Socialism are mutually exclusive Modes of Production?

      All in all, very dumbfounded at this comment.