• glitchdx@lemmy.world
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    1 month ago

    people around here like to blame the nebulous concept of “capitalism” for all the world’s problems instead of focusing on the actual causes of those problems: billionaires and corporations using their massive wealth to stiffle competition, bribe governments, harm those beneath them for their own entertainment, and otherwise inflate their own wealth even further. What part of this is unique to capitalism? Furthermore, what aspects of communism that are actually beneficial to the common man are exclusive to communism, and couldn’t be implemented in to a capitalist system through changes in poliicy?

    governments and economies are machines that require frequent cleaning and maintenance. Any government, lacking sufficient care, will decay into fascism. Look at the us currently.

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      1 month ago

      “The problem isn’t capitalism, it’s just all the stuff capitalism allows and encourages people to do!”

      If anything, your idea of what the problem is, is incredibly more nebulous. There’s no analysis or understanding, just “bad people do bad stuff.”

      Furthermore, what aspects of communism that are actually beneficial to the common man are exclusive to communism

      Are we talking about communism (economic system) or communists (ideological justification for state capitalism used by 20th century authoritarian states), because the differences between the economic system of communism and capitalism are pretty clear.