• GaryLeChat@lemmygrad.ml
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    1 year ago

    If capitalism inevitably becomes imperialism, then wouldn’t the evolution of communism into something akin to Soviet Russia also be inevitable? Both are extreme worst case scenarios of a decent idea

    What are you trying to say here? I think I know what you’re trying to say but it’s weird that you’re narrowing in on the Russian Soviet Republic.

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      It was kind of a clumsy way of putting it, but I was basically trying to say that you can’t just point at one thing and say “this idea always leads here”. You can make an educated guess at the general direction if the system is abused, but you can’t be certain.

      A system needs to be carefully maintained to stay in its best state as long as possible. We haven’t invented the perfect system yet, so pretty much everything we have will eventually fall apart. We just need it to last 'til we can make something better

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        It’s not just making a hasty generalization. Everywhere capitalism has occurred it has evolved into imperialism or the victim of imperialism. Nowhere exists where your ideal capitalism exists. The whole world is either imperialist or industrial capitalist or socialist. How do you expect industrial society to exist with individuals owning their means of production? The only way is collective ownership. The last non-Marxist country that I can think of where everyone owned their own means of production was Libya in Gaddafi’s time, but of course they were invaded by the imperialists and now there are open air slave markets there. It’s funny how every state that meets your definition of capitalism has called themselves socialist in some form or another. Even in early capitalism it wasn’t good. There was slavery and colonialism. Was it only pure in the 1600s? Even then there was colonialism and highly profitable “exploration” and extraction ventures.