• mystic-macaroni@lemmy.ml
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    10 hours ago

    She’s not “wrong”. She knows what she said. She’s blaming the left. They already took antifa. She’s taking communism.

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        9 hours ago

        Ahhhhh ok so a western politician insulted dear leader so of course y’all are spun up about it while the rest of us don’t even remember that it happened

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          What do you mean by “dear leader?” I oppose both Trump and Harris, and think Harris is displaying clown-like behavior by attacking Trump while attacking the left.

          • ☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆@lemmy.mlOP
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            Being a liberal is kind of like being the protagonist from Memento. You just live in the moment, you don’t form long term memories.

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        9 hours ago

        Ah, right. So as a shorthand for „way too batshit fucking crazy to have that much power”

        The issue is the authoritarianism, not the economic system

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          All states are “authoritarian,” though. States are extensions of the ruling class in any given class society, capitalists in capitalist economies and the working class in socialist economies. The state wields the authority of the ruling class against other classes whenever class conflict arises. The extent to which authority is used depends on the circumstances a given society is in, Nazi Germany and modern Germany both have the same capacity for authoritarianism but are in different circumstances (though that seems to be changing).

          The only way to get beyond such talk of “authoritarianism” is to eliminate the state by eliminating its basis, class society, and the only way to do that is to collectivize all of production and distribution. Until we get there, it’s necessary for the working class to be the ruling class that oppresses the capitalists.

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          Say that to Bernie and Harris, they are the ones associating Trump with communism.

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          except that isn’t what harris said; she specifically singled out communism. how does it feel to have the attention span of a goldfish?

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          People hear communism and think China is bad, that is the line Americans have been fed for decades.

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            To be fair, China is socialist, the “problem” is that that’s increasingly obvious to be a good thing that has brought the PRC tremendous success, led by the CPC.