Re:Jeff Bezos’ Dystopian Legacy Goes Far Beyond Amazon
by jseban on Wednesday July 14, 2021 @07:39AM
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> What is? Do you think free food, free housing, free education and free healthcare is too much? Do you think power to the people (not parliaments) is too much? What about libertarian communism (anarchism) disgusts you?
Haha, no comment..
Re:Jeff Bezos’ Dystopian Legacy Goes Far Beyond Amazon
by southerntofu on Saturday July 17, 2021 @06:18AM
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Because no argmuent?
Re:Jeff Bezos’ Dystopian Legacy Goes Far Beyond Amazon
by kortilla on Wednesday July 21, 2021 @01:28AM
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Because it’s stupid to respond to someone that assumes the conclusion.
There is no such thing as “free food, free healthcare, and free education” until we have robots that literally do all of those things for us without us needing to work. Speaking like communism provides free things without discussing the real cost of that (forced labor, poor quality, etc) is like pitching a religion touting the benefits of heaven. Big shocker when nobody cares to engage in an argument.
To my knowledge, only a handful. Workers self-organization in Catalonia during the Spanish revolution (1936-1937) is one, Community-oriented democracy in Chiapas (since 1994) and Rojava (since 2011) is another.
The other examples you think of (unless i'm mistaken) are precisely dictatorships of the proletariat that have nothing to do with communism and never intended to build power for the people.
> wind back the clock to 1968, pretend like nothing happened and start ranting about communism?
In 1968, the situation in regards to communism was already as it is today. The counter-revolutionary crimes of marxist-leninists and their State capitalism date from 1917, not after 1968. In 1917, the revolution was one aiming for people's liberation until Lenin, Trotsky and their cliques made a coup d'État and murdered everyone who disagreed with them.
> Sorry, that's just a bit too much
What is? Do you think free food, free housing, free education and free healthcare is too much? Do you think power to the people (not parliaments) is too much? What about libertarian communism (anarchism) disgusts you?