• ReakDuck@lemmy.ml
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        But… when I see the whole world on a Map. I only see terrain and water. When I zoom in, I may see roads, rivers, houses.

        I might see Labels like which country it is, which road and river I am looking at.

        But I wont see “Communism” on a map.

        When I go to the west. I will see the east at some point.

        So… I dont get what you mean.

        Note that I might be autistic but not a troll.

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      That idea alone is sort of impossible. There is no pure communist or pure capitalist economy. Hell even capitalism is one balanced region between four points of varying qualities: authoritarian vs libertarian, and market driven vs planned economy. Communism is an authoritarian planned economy.

      One of the first economic rules is that it is impossible to have a pure economy. Purely market driven or purely planned. The closer an economy gets to it the more it all falls apart. Right wing totalitarianism is the closest thing to an opposite of communism, and it absolutely sucks. Several former Soviet nations went that way after the fall. They became so anti-communist that they had to become totalitarian regimes (pseudo democracy where there is an election, but only one party, with only one candidate, because they illegalized all opposition). RWT is as destructive to economies as communism was. I admit that perceptions of how communism performed is filled with controversy and misinformation on every side. But no matter how you slice it, communism failed mostly because it placed duty to community above basic needs like food and shelter. Or, more correctly, managers of production had no incentive to perform their best, so they performed at lower and lower levels until the whole economy was so depressed that it could not feed everyone while food was spoiling in the fields unharvested.

      There is a reason why China switched to a capitalist economy, even though they still call themselves communist the way Burger King calls themselves “King.”

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        Thats a good answer. Yeah.

        America for example. Is not a capitalism country someone said. But instead on a fucked up system that allows Richer people to become richer with votings theough banks and tons of other things. While poor people become poorer.

        And every countey has capitalism. Thats the idea of owning something. Either its the country itself or some individual.

        And Communism somehow stays as an idea sadly.

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          Yep. That’s pretty much exactly how I feel. American economics ispl pretty far from capitalism, having too few balanced regulations and allowing extremely one sided (wealthy) dominance of the market. Which is the exact opposite of a free market (one where every party in a transaction has equal and fair power in the negotiation. Free market has absolutely nothing to do with that nonsense about being free from regulations or government interference).

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            Do you mean anCapitalism when you say capitalism? The one with the NAP where your towns get overrun by bears?

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              No. The definition of capitalism has been utterly confused by politicians who couldn’t steal and corrupt under its basic principles. Which makes it really freaking hard to explain the best practices for economics (as in what has been proven over and over again to work best overall) when every word is overlayed with a false definition. In reality democratic socialism is just a marketable name for what capitalism really is.

              Capitalism is the idea that if the government doesn’t own everyone, and everyone is free to work for their own living, and (here is the key part) there are laws and regulations to prevent anyone from taking advantage of anyone else (that’s the free market part) then everyone will work together to create the best economy possible. One where there is no central planning (as opposed to a king appointing a Lord over an area), just everyone free to do whatever they do best.

              Our current economy isn’t capitalism. It is too far to the right into oligarchy (which gives corrupt control to a few and everyone else is unable to participate in the market freely) to be a free market economy. We absolutely must move to the left, introducing regulations and investing in public infrastructure and education to return to real capitalism. But I doubt there is any chance of that in our lifetimes. Not without some terrible revolution and all the failures that will bring before we return to sanity.

              To be clear, I am not arguing for anything you probably associate with capitalism as being good or best. I am arguing that no one ever should have associated those things with capitalism, and that the misdirection was created decades ago so the wealthy could subjugate us under a manufactured income gap and economic oppression.

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    Do we count deaths in prison, from preventable disease, nutrition, work accidents and suicides?

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      I think with ‘certain’ counting methods we can get the capitalism number to 8000mil

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        Lets see on genocide, capitalism has the holocaust, whatever the canadian gov is doing to the people who lived there before…

        On persecution we have western europe persecuting jews, then roma, then anti-zionists (so jews again), then russians…

        On little accidents we have those two yankee soldiers who were ordered to kill the people of yemen, but instead they tripped and fell into the sea. The only good imperial soldiers.

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      Didnt know mao and stalin ranna stateless moneyless democratic society of equals

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      Not defending stalin and mao. They and their allys, supporters and defenders can rot in hell

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      So Stalin helped kill a buttload of Nazis which is nice.

      And saying “under Chinese rule” is a weird way to state it. I mean, of course the Chinese people should rule themselves. Unless you’re butt hurt about China resisting the western colonial powers and murdering a bunch of capitalists.

      Given the bad faith of your comment, I feel no need to elaborate, clarify, or provide nuance.

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      How many were killed by the UK, US, France etc?

      Under Churchill millions of Indians died in the Bengal famine
      There was the Madras famine before that, which is less known.
      British rule killed millions of Indians.

      USAmerica caused the genocide in Guatemala. Carpet bombed Vietnam, Laos, Korea etc.
      Couped Chile
      The war on terror stuff
      The Indonesian massacre on anti-capitalists or neutrals

      Tried to threaten India during the Bangladeshi independence movement, by sending ships with nuclear weapons.
      The U S S R sent its nuclear submarines to create a stalemate.

      The capitalist country tried to threaten us with atomic weapons and the communist nation helped us get a stalemate and stable existence using their own.

      France arranging coups in African nations.

      Why stop at those who died under rule of Stalin, why not compare the deaths caused by capitalist nations in their conquests to defend freedom and democracy and educate the brown and black people?

      Only one country has used atomic bombs on civillian towns, that too twice.
      The main countries that have a ‘No first use policy’ are U S S R(past), India and China.

      Aren’t the communists and socialists the decent ones there?
      You can say that it is a superficial move for propaganda. If so, why didn’t the other major countries do the same?
      It indeed shows a difference in policy.

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          I know communism is horrible for white supremacists because they dont get to rule the “others” then, but I dont think that should be condemned

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    I am not sure communism really evr existed in big scale, so the meme is not accurate. Please don’t say Stalin was communist, unkess you don’t want to read me saying I am a pole dancer (I am not).

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      As if western euros had any idea what communism is. You losers never even had communism.

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      Communism in it sense never existed. Would have needed a statless moneyless democratic society of equals.

      Despise the people that say it was, and the people that are for and defend the attrocities those regiems did