• Swedneck
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    humans being inherently selfish and greedy is literally a capitalist lie though, like that’s really really obviously not true if you look at how generous and willing to sacrifice themselves for someone else people are.

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      People aren’t necessarily selfish, but they are tribal. They’ll go above and beyond for the people they know. Their family, friends, neighbours,…

      But this sympathy is rarely extended to people further away. From different towns, countries,…

      I believe most people are not purely selfish, but selfish people do seem to do extremely well under capitalism. (Not making any statements on other economic systems though)

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        right, and this is why it’s so important that we have systems that take in mind how humans work.

        Capitalism is horrendous for this reason, it explicitly and directly incentivizes the worst parts of humanity and results in a downward spiral of selfishness and dehumanization.

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        I wouldn’t say “rarely” the entire liberal political movement is based on treating people we don’t know and will never know with decency.

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        you do realize china is a capitalist dictatorship, and the soviet union was also turned into a dictatorship, right?

        Pointing at dictatorships and acting like they’re some amazing gotcha for an ideology they claim to follow is something even elementary grade school kids realize is dumb.

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          China wasn’t capitalist under Mao.

          And yeah that’s kinda my point. You cannot have socialism without a dictatorship. That’s like explicitly in Marx’s writings. The term is dictatorship of the proletariat.

          https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dictatorship_of_the_proletariat

          It’s a fundamental cornerstone of Marxism. A dictatorship with a monopoly on force is necessary to transition from a capitalist society to a communist society by forcibly seizing the means of production and using force to prevent counterrevolution.

          The problem is that once you give that dictatorial power to a state, you can’t get it back.

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            You can’t debate reality with commies because they don’t live in reality.