• mommykink
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    18 months ago

    Do you consider America a capitalist society?

    • Sybil
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      18 months ago

      say what you mean.

      • mommykink
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        8 months ago

        Capitalism is also a stateless economic philosophy, and like communism, is completely incompatible with modern politics (for better or worse, your choice). The argument that the Soviet Union, China, etc. weren’t real Communism because they didn’t meet some make-believe qualifications is pointlessly redundant when those states were very proud to call themselves Communists. In other words, their existence retroactively changed the working definition of what a Communist state is by virtue of being the only realized state to call themselves such.

        • Sybil
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          18 months ago

          The argument that the Soviet Union, China, etc. weren’t real Communism because they didn’t meet some make-believe qualifications is pointlessly redundant when those states were very proud to call themselves Communists.

          if i call myself the queen of england, it doesn’t make it so. communism has a definition and it is impossible for a state to be communist since communism is stateless.

        • Sybil
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          18 months ago

          Capitalism is also a stateless economic philosophy,

          no, it’s not. the term is coined by marx in reference to a system of production in which the ownership of the means of production is held by a capitalist class by means of private property claims. private property claims necessarily depend on a state to do things like write deeds and enforce them. whoever told you otherwise is lying.