• HopFlop
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      5 months ago

      All communist social-media addicts are always hsppy for the rest of their lives, of course! The addiction can’t be the issue, it has to be capitalism!

      • Cowbee [he/him]@lemmy.ml
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        5 months ago

        Hey, I became a lot more hopeful for the future after reading Marx. Capitalism does indeed suck, but it’s unsustainable.

        • frezik@midwest.social
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          5 months ago

          The problem Marx didn’t foresee is that capitalism can sustain itself until it destroys us all. In Nazi Germany, this left the country a bombed out pile of rubble. In modern times, it’s global warming.

          • Cowbee [he/him]@lemmy.ml
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            5 months ago

            Marx definitely foresaw that possibility, his conclusions are more that if there aren’t grand wars or famines eliminating everyone, Capitalism itself cannot last forever, which is far more comforting than assuming socialism can vibe itself into existence.

    • MacN'Cheezus@lemmy.today
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      5 months ago

      Lemmy is made by actual communists, so let’s not pretend communism would somehow fix that.

      • YeetPics@mander.xyz
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        5 months ago

        Yea, these are the real communists, not like all those other communists, with their fake communism.

        • MacN'Cheezus@lemmy.today
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          5 months ago

          Well, if you ask any communist, they’ll tell you that real communism has never been tried, which implies that all other communists are fake.