• GodlessCommieOPM
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    1 day ago

    So you want socialism as long as you can still have the exploitation under capitalism. Which are essentially saying is that you don’t want to give up the privileges the status quo has provided you.

    This was specifically addressed in 1937 by Mao in Combat Liberalism:

    https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/mao/selected-works/volume-2/mswv2_03.htm

    Liberalism stems from petty-bourgeois selfishness, it places personal interests first and the interests of the revolution second, and this gives rise to ideological, political and organizational liberalism.

    People who are liberals look upon the principles of Marxism as abstract dogma. They approve of Marxism, but are not prepared to practice it or to practice it in full; they are not prepared to replace their liberalism by Marxism. These people have their Marxism, but they have their liberalism as well–they talk Marxism but practice liberalism; they apply Marxism to others but liberalism to themselves. They keep both kinds of goods in stock and find a use for each. This is how the minds of certain people work.

    • BlameThePeacock@lemmy.ca
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      14 hours ago

      There is exploitation under all systems that involve more than 1 human being. Capitalism is just more overt about it. Classless society is not possible, human nature does not allow for it. Humans are smart monkeys, we did not evolve to be members of tribes of thousands, let alone millions or billions. Our brains simply aren’t wired that way. As much as I’d love to live in some wonderful utopia where everyone is equal, even when two people are equal today they still fight each other.