Yeah but all forms of government are constantly attacked. You’re like a multicellular organism crying foul because bacteria and other pathogens are trying to invade it.

One of the reasons capitalism wins is it produces enough wealth to win wars. Consistently. The same wealth that leads to ever-lower levels of poverty also wins wars.

Well that, and also being fired from companies for speaking against equity drives and the like.

Regardless of what Marx and Lenin declared about their stance with regard to utopianism, communism is utopian in the sense that it doesn’t exist, and can only exist in a world that is fundamentally different than this one.

Authoritarianism is the opposite of libertarianism, roughly speaking. It’s a sliding scale, but those would be the two opposites in play.

For example, a more authoritarian approach to road safety would be: “Manufacturers are not allowed to make cars that go over 50 mph”

A more libertarian approach to road safety would be: “We’re publishing the average fatality rate of this road. You can choose to engage with it as you deem appropriate”

Our actual approach with licenses and speed limits and some regulations on car safety and soft but escalating consequences for breaking the road rules is somewhere in between.

Why didn’t you apply that critique to this:

thoritarianism is a meaningless term that people with lack of capacity for rational thought regurgitate

Did you simply not notice the alienating language there, because you agreed with the sentiment?

Also they have to not want to trade. If someone starts trading, then the communism is over.

Turns out when people are free to make economic arrangements as they please, capitalism happens.

But it’s a natural state of existence to exist within a broader, hostile context.

Civilization, at all levels, has always been that. Competition is everywhere.

If a system requires nothing else to be competing with it, in order to work, then it’s not viable.

And not in any way implemented by the government.

I’m a conservative, and I have zero problem with communism when it’s performed spontaneously by people.

It’s when the government starts doing it that it bothers me.

If only the soviets had kept more detailed records of the gulag

What are some local examples of coop housing, worker-owned business and production, etc that you’ve pushed for?

(If you don’t mind doxing yourself with the local details that is)

How much money per year do you think is going into convincing people that climate is an existential threat?

What does the Aral sea have to do with climate change? The point is that communism doesn’t have any kind of inherent conservationist tendency to it.

And tens of millions of people being forced into the grave by starvation or outright murdered en masse

Now imagine it’s “capitalism” and all the movies, talking heads, schools, and rock stars are railing against capitalism.

Melba toast

git

Even less if you charge it at home during off-peak hours!

bddb is my favorite word to pronounce

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and a roofie so you can forget the whole stupid experience