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[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

Or you can stop crying yourself a river, roll up your sleeves, and get to work on doing something about it. To make the best of you’ve got and work on improving the parts of life you aren’t satisfied with one step at a time with a relatively clear and focused end goal in mind.

The internationale gradually fades in

[–] [email protected] -3 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

Toothbrush argued that the Holdomor never happened

The argument is that the famine in 1932-1933 wasn't a genocide, according to such notable anti-soviet historians as Conquest, Davies, Wheatcroft, and even Applebaum.

It was caused by, among other things, a lack of an independent review of numbers collected by local officials throughout the USSR, being forced to use wheat as a currency to trade with europe, the need for rapid industrialization in anticipation of another invasion (which eventually happened) and to a lesser extent sabotage of the harvest and killing of livestock by the local propertied class in opposition to collectivization among the poor peasants. All of these factors combined with bad weather within a normal range (that caused famines elsewhere) led to the famine.

And as a nice excursus, the total numbers of people dying to Stalins misrule is nearly the same as those who died to the Axis Invasion.

This is actually holocaust trivialization, according to Jewish experts on the holocaust in Eastern Europe.

https://jewishcurrents.org/the-double-genocide-theory

The writer is notable as a historian and as an activist who fought to protect two jewish holocaust survivors who were being tried as soviet collaborators (they were just random jewish survivors of the holocaust). He does not, to my knowledge, have any connection to the soviet union or communism.

As someone who had family that survived a nazi death camp, I would consider trusting the source of that misinfo significantly less.

[–] [email protected] -4 points 11 months ago

Lol I have a bullshit job in tech, I'm just not ignorant about what marxist terms mean because I've read marx.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago

Read books, look at memes, consume no traditional infotainment

[–] [email protected] -4 points 11 months ago (2 children)

That does not demonstrate how a house is built with a phone

[–] [email protected] 83 points 11 months ago

It is incel/manosphere shit

[–] [email protected] -2 points 11 months ago

Social democracy isn't sustainable though, it requires the threat of a revolution to force the capitalists into a compromise and will be rolled back when that threat passes in the name of profit.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 11 months ago

Look up how much debt the average US citizen is in and tell me what low barrier to entry industries they can break into

[–] [email protected] 0 points 11 months ago (2 children)

To me capitalism is defined by free markets. A free market is one in which the economic relationships are consensual.

If you think a system where the means of production are owned by a class of people and another class of people must sell their labor power in order to survive (the definition of capitalism according to Marx) is full of consensual economic relationships I worry about your definition of consent.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (3 children)

Theyre in short supply because of artificial scarcity, which benefits the people who own and rent land. The government loosening building regulations would not fix the fact that it is more profitable to create artificial scarcity.

Also you're pretending like the government is in opposition to landlords. The leech class owns the government, that is why the term "dictatorship of the bourgeoisie" or alternatively "democracy of the bourgeoisie" was invented.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 11 months ago

Do you understand how something being owned by a democratic government is different than something being owned by individuals, whether it is publicly traded or not?

Like, from a power perspective, do you understand the difference for the average prole between the means of production being owned by individuals based on heredity vs being collectively owned by a democratic body?

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