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Just as capitalist states are "authoritarian" against working class interests, socialist states are "authoritarian" against capitalist interests.

The state is a tool for one class to oppress another. The goal of (most) communists is to transition from capitalism — where the capitalist class is in power — to a stateless, classless communist society via socialism — where the working class is in power.

Public perception of which is more "authoritarian" therefore depends on which class is currently in power and is able to manufacture consent, and that is the capitalist class in the vast majority of the world right now since the USSR's overthrow.

• What is "Authoritarianism"?

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And the rest are racist.

Took a look through some of the ones with tame names out of morbid curiosity; not that interesting tbh. Just hope I'm not on a watchlist now.

Wow, the Fediverse is actually visible :0

Because Israel is more profitable of course. Whatever "justifications" the US uses for war are always just excuses to earn the ruling capitalist class more profit.

Capitalism just follows the money. Though if there's enough protests and riots at home, the cost of managing that would outweigh the profit of genocoding native Palestinians.

A good chiropractor is one that doesn't use chiropractic "treatment"

The Taliban need to unionize

Same thing that would happen if sanctions on Afghanistan were lifted. Regular people's lives would improve as the country could import what they need. Cuba is really lacking in cement and medical supplies for example iirc (though their medical system and education is world-class), and they can't import them cuz of the embargo.

Obviously not much would change in the US, aside from some people realizing socialism isn't too bad when you're not a tiny country sanctioned and blockaded by the most war-mongering nation in the world.

Internet Historian of all people? Well damn :(

Instead it's filled with zionazi and anti-piracy filth.

I prefer my filth Marxist and materialist flavoured thank you very much.

I bet a large part of the Fediverse are Communist/Socialist too, or have similar ideas. Lemmy's devs are, after all.

I mean, the whole thing is based on the idea of being free to use for everyone.

Military, oil, and other megacorporations love Israel though.

Majority opinion doesn't matter as much as that of the capitalist ruling class under capitalism, unless there's massive protests and riots.

Germany of all should know a genocide when it is happening.

Oh they know. The problem is west germany just never went through denazification

• More Nazis in German justice department after WWII than during Third Reich: study finds.

Fully 77 percent of senior ministry officials in 1957 were former members of Adolf Hitler's Nazi party, a higher proportion even than during the 1933-45 Third Reich, the study found.

Zionism is just the new form. Same goals (getting Jews out of Europe, and imperialism and colonialism; this time in the middle east instead), and similar methods (weaponizing and exacerbating antisemitism). No wonder then that nazis and zionists worked together.

Isn't that a .world user? Lemmygrad doesn't allow homophobes as a rule. Probably why they couldn't register on that instance.

Being gay and imperialist is a hilarious thought though lol

Incredibly based.

It sounds off-ful

I'm sorry

Okay this is clearly referencing something. Who is it

If you're in the US, doing that would save tens of millions of lives, both in the US and across the world.

Ukraine isn't as profitable as Israel genocoding native Palestinians after all.

Capitalism just follows the money; the justifications and lies the US makes for war are always just excuses to profit the ruling class of capitalist corporations.

I wonder how long it'll be before people finally realize the US political/economic system is completely broken and needs to be rebuilt from scratch.

Democratically owning the means of production among the workers. Instead of some greedy rich guy who'd want to give as little of the profit as possible to the people actually making the product or providing the service.

So, pointing out that the US carpet bombed North Korea with 635,000 tons of bombs, killed 20% of their population and turned all remaining infrastructure to rubble is "tankie" now?

You guys just can't see non-westerners as human.

Eh they'll make a PC version at some point

They stopped innovating in the late 2000s. It’s all been pointless marketing rebrands since.

Capitalism in a nutshell. Once a monopoly has been established, all that's left is to keep others down through bs IP laws, patents and decrease wages.

Organizing it through a Socialist government would probably be the easiest.

And complaining about such a tiny challenge is hilarious lmao

How so? Cuba has one of the most open democracies in the world. Plus free healthcare, no homelessness, and enough free high level education to provide Italy with doctors during the pandemic.

All while the world's current top superpower is right beside them, sees them as an enemy, and has a still ongoing embargo on them for 60 years now to prevent them from trading with other countries. That'll hopefully change once China's Belt and Road Initiative is complete though.

Clearly this model works. It does require expelling landleeches, plantation owners and billionaires if they don't hand over the means of production to the workers (like Cuba did after the revolution), but I don't think most people would mind that.

It also historically requires fighting off the US though because military, oil, and other private corporation owners can't exploit Socialist countries as much, which is harder.

I'm not using Xitter unfortunately 😔

Co-ops and unions are certainly steps in the right direction, but they're more like temporary band-aids over Capitalism instead of implementing proper Socialism.

I can't think of anything to refute your comment

So you understand my point. Thanks lol

Leave it to westerners to be completely ignorant of history lol

This 'meme' is disgusting.

Parroting zionist talking points really well there bud. The fuck do you mean 'wrong'?

The Viet Cong didn't liberate their country from the US by being nice, and Palestinians won't liberate theirs from US-backed Israel by being nice either. The difference here is the even more extreme brutality of the US that made NK the way it is today.

Work isn't just physical you know. Management, planning, etc is work too, and they'd get paid according to how many want to do them, and how hard they are.

The difference is, like I said, that some greedy rich bastard who’d want to give as little of the profit as possible to the people actually making the product or providing the service wouldn't own that means of production.

No because the US would find some excuse to start a war to change that.

I wish it were...

Normalize killing billionaires! (for legal reasons this is a joke)

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It is though? People directly nominate individuals in their area, and the ballots are checked in public where anyone can attend.

This results in a Parliament that evenly and properly represents the entire population. That's why Cuba has an unusually high percentage of women in the government, 53.22% now (U.S has 29.0%), and better LGBT rights than the U.S. nowadays.

The power of a proper democracy.

Being rich as an advantage is also taken away by banning advertising yourself/anyone. You need social connections with the people in your area (Socialism) instead.

Not knowing something is fine, but being ignorant and arrogant about it is unfortunate. Though I suppose it is unbelievable, if you're in a Capitalist country, to hear that a nation has solved homelessness, starvation, and education by just changing its political/economic system (and fighting off the US after).

Imagine its sheer potential once it can trade with other countries with that massive advantage, after the US is eventually forced to stop the embargo.

Ayy glad it helped someone 🤝🤝

You mean the 2021 "protests"? Most of it was pro-government/revolution ones against CIA-backed 'protests' that were spun up by Fox News to be pro-US; by blurring out signs and the like. And a fake Twitter campaign run by bots.

Second thought made a great video covering the whole thing; he has sources in the description.

This is nothing new for the US; the CIA staged a coup in Iran to overthrow the democratically elected Mosaddegh because his policies would benefit Iran instead of US's oil companies, caused a mass killing in Indonesia in 1965 and a coup in Chile to replace it with a military dictatorship for similar reasons. Great way to justify military action.

These aren't declassified until decades later for obvious reasons. They're called "color revolutions" and are staged by billion dollar US corporations to set the stage for military or political action. Best way to spot them is seeing if they have US-flags or have signs with generic lines like "Freedom".

Also writing walls of text won’t make you right

Downvoting in a discussion is kinda cringe bro ngl, specially without replying why

Lmaoo you downvoted that too. Are karma numbers that important to you?

Strengthening Israel's military also gives them more power and influence over the oil in the middle east, and keeps the countries from uniting against the imperial core.