Quote (inkanddagger @ Aug 11 2020 12:02am)
bunch of noam chomsky links
Edit: ugh you get so much shit wrong I can’t even. Chavism isn’t communism. Jesus. More than half of Venezuela’s economy is privately owned even today.
"Lenin and Mao called their systems State Capitalism." You're so caught up in the pedantry and semantics of your argument that you are unable to see the forest for the trees. It's much like the lefties screaming "Well they're called Antifa you fucking idiot, do you even know what that means retard, it means ANTI FASCIST so it's impossible for them to be fascist GOSH DUMMY!" I've already conceded that "real" communism has never been implemented anywhere, as in the textbook definition, because it's an impossibility that requires totalitarianism as has been demonstrated multiple times on the path to attempting it. That leaves you with socialism, the baby cousin and precursor of communism, which has also not been attempted at a puritan level but where the proletariat own the means of production but shit like private property and currency still exist, so surprise surprise many elements of capitalism are extant in a "socialist" system, such as modern China which is arguably now more capitalist than socialist, and another shocker that their capitalist tendencies correlate with their economic boom. I hope you're not actually as insufferable as your pseudo-intellectual rants and personal attacks would lead me to believe.
Also if we're gonna play the name game, can you tell me what the full name of the predominant political party in Germany was in, let's say, 1940?
This post was edited by phoenixfire82 on Aug 10 2020 10:56pm