• squiblet
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    10 months ago

    They don’t actually give a fuck about cruelty imo because they don’t see worker drones as people. Ensuring the working class is on the edge of crisis is the point. They want people to be hardly making it, but enough to keep going, so they’ll work endlessly and accept crappy conditions. They want people to be deluded by propaganda and not have the energy or time to seek political change. Making money and retaining power is the point.

    • @CharlesDarwin
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      210 months ago

      That’s the viewpoint of the elites running the party. For the average rube, they want to see the “right people” suffer.

      • squiblet
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        510 months ago

        Dickens gave the capitalist scathing criticism, so maybe one of his villains such as Scrooge.

        • @postmateDumbass
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          110 months ago

          The capitalists have already adopted much from their utopian (sic) novels, 1984 and Brave New World, and soon will realize the economic utopia depicted in Dickens’ work.