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Communism is when no work
Communism is when no exploitation
That’s workers rights and unions. You do not need a massive overhaul of the whole society according to antiquated and mostly failed ideas to have the civil work conditions.
If majority of people in America do not want better workers protection by voting how could they ever agree to communism?
First focus on the small and relatively easy steps, like defeating trump.
Like Keynsenianism? Neo-liberalism? Capitalism in general?
I mean it works and we have actual things. You just have to restrain it and modify which is still in the future of USA when many countries are long past this phase. It is as simple as taxing rich and redistribution. Then we can get the poor to contribute more by welfare and more gain for everyone. But again you cannot overtax or eliminate rich completely as there is no incentive anymore to strive to become rich and create startups, companies, businesses etc.
In interconnected world they can also run away but this is big problem for communism too. Specialists run from communist country to make it big on another side of iron curtain, or just to not starve.
All in all it’s pretty comfy here and no sight of communism whatsoever. Only online some niche people worship a book and call you names pretty quickly
What’s funny I never heard ever of immigration from capitalist country to communist one because either a. Purportedly pUrE cOmMunIsM doEsnT eXisT (yet? Ever?) b. It is shit. The communism is when it works. It doesn’t work? It isn’t communism. See the rule nr 1#
I think this is more because money is no longer used for its original intention, i.e. facilitating the easy trade of goods and services, instead of a physical resource to hoard for the purposes of calling on future promises or just for more hoarding.
What? Have you read literally any marx?
What? Have you read literally any marx?
Didn't you just say communism is never happening? Lol.
Is the US somehow exceptional in that socialism can never happen here? Does the logic of capitalism not apply within the US bubble?
USA have to first pick Kamala and do the social welfare things to get to peak growth potential. There’s lots of people that could be productive but are super fucked by no help from government whatsoever.
For now half of people vote for idiot trump that is antithesis of anything from the left spectrum. There’s zero support for communism. Negative support even.
And if you by any chance daydream about some sort of bloody revolution by all 126 of chronically online communists then well… clean your greasy hair and do something with life because we all have only one. Shame to waste it on pipe dreams
Do you still see the world as a completely static entity divorced from your own agency? Because that kind of perspective would make me want to lie down in a ditch and die.
Let’s switch to something more fun. Do you know a good recipe for original Italian margarita?
As I said you do not need to fundamentally change every aspect of society and hope for the best. There are tools for fair work conditions already.
You don’t rewrite whole code into some unproven prototype that mostly failed before. you just upgrade one class