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@Shay_Slay_ What radicalised me

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@Everett24111608 @abierkhatib Hindu nationalists didn't care about whether they were being colonised by Portuguese Catholics or British Protestants.

To someone from the outside looking in, they're all just "Christians". Any internal divisions, however fierce, are petty and trivial.

What's your point?

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@_Credible_Hulk In Marxist theory, the idea is that capitalism industrialises agriculture, and then socialism nationalises agriculture.

Socialist revolutions resulted in mass starvation because they tried to do both at the same time.

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@TheFluffyQueer @gbaiocchi27 @BulwarkOnline How many times has that been attempted in history, and how many of those attempts were successful?

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@Juan123445_Pr1v This is very clearly directed at DSA supporters who say "we support socialism, not communism".

Why you think it's directed at Marxist-Leninists like you who openly support communism, I've no idea.

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@fltavern @JanSchwede @abierkhatib https://t.co/0xCIlZDfM1

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>be me
>call myself a socialist
>privatize industries
>support free market economic reforms
>put into power by Junker nobles and German conservatives
>crack down on trade unions and strikes
>outlaw socialist and communist political parties
>be Vladimir Lenin
>pic unrelated

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@ghuff @JanSchwede Socialism is much older than Marxism. Marx even called his movement "communism" specifically to distinguish it from socialism.

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@sethharpesq This just shows how shallow and performative AI hate is.

They still don’t have anything in their arsenal but the "AI can’t do hands" thing, even though it’s already years out of date.

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@AVERDADEIRANya @AmadeusBolshev The point isn't that Europeans are the "good guys", it's that the story can't be simplified into "good guys vs bad guys" at all.

If you steal someone’s wallet and then someone else steals it from you, don't spend the next 200 years whining about how you're the victim.

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@saurier @Plz_Relax_ OK fascist.

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@thelongmarch86 "mentally sane"
Alrighty then.

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@cosmonations1 @Lieboisout By "doing socialism" I mean "introducing elements of socialism". Capitalism is still the main engine of the economy.

What are you not getting here?

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@cosmonations1 @Lieboisout No, it is a social democracy.

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@colossusreviews @Plz_Relax_ Someone calls out fascism and your immediate reaction is to call them an "idiot" and a "shitposter" rather than standing in solidarity against fascism with them.

What does this say about you?

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@Atilla_the_Buns @rfieldsster even if it means paying them to dig holes and fill them back up again.

In fact, this is far more logical than capitalism's logic, which generates profit simply for the sake of generating more profit to generate even more profit, ad infinitem.

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@Atilla_the_Buns @rfieldsster What looks like waste from a capitalist perspective is really just putting people over profits. When you have far more food than could ever be consumed, yet people are still going hungry just because capitalism can't find a use for them, it's better to redistribute wealth to them

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@Atilla_the_Buns @rfieldsster Compare that to capitalism, which says "if you don't work you don't eat, AND we will do our best to make sure you don't work by investing in machines to replace you and letting reckless speculation crash the economy at least once per decade".

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@Atilla_the_Buns @rfieldsster This is simply a misunderstanding of the point. The USSR guaranteed employment to all its citizens. Unemployment was practically illegal.

That's what the statement "if a man doesn't work, neither shall he eat" actually means.