{"comments":[{"comment":{"id":13415901,"creator_id":4580792,"post_id":20380141,"content":"So I say somewhere else that one shouldn’t bother with this comic because its assumptions are flawed, but let’s point out exactly how because otherwise Marxists will live in the flawed understanding that their pov is unchallenged or inherently correct.\n\n— the alien assumes for some magical reason a property cannot be owned, specifically a factory. A factory is not a natural product of the world, there’s not tree growing factories. Someone put in an investment to create it, and the work they allocate in that factory is a recoupment of that factory building investment.\n\n— the workers obey “pieces” of paper because that’s what society decided is civilized behavior. The alternative is one where a factory owner decides to kill people for trying to take what’s theirs, or the workers decide to kill the factory owner to take over. Either way, there is violence and bloodshed. \n\nMarxist believe, for whatever magical reasons, that the violence will stop once they seize the means of production. But why should it? Why wouldn’t another subgroup of Marxists constantly want to challenge the committees who want to run that specific factory? The answer is that without a rule or agreement (piece of paper), various groups will constantly try to seize what they think should be theirs. \n\n— the alien believes that agreeing to work with someone is slavery. Here I have two things to say: 1) for someone who doesn’t want to work, then any kind of work will appear to be slavery, and that’s not a a capitalism problem, that’s a self actualization problem for some people. 2) in reasonable economies, people have choices for places to work, or unions which ensure that employers cannot abuse them, or laws which ensure protections. \n\nThe fact is simply this, whenever two people interact, they will have disagreements. We make laws to not kill each other over those disagreements. If you want to experience what it’s like living in an authoritarian state, try living in china or Vietnam. Rule of law means little or nothing in such places, whereas in democracies you can still get some recourse via the courts, or via regulations. Have kleptocrats and oligarchs ruined democracies, yes definitely.\n\n— being a larger class doesn’t necessarily mean anything in violent conflict. I think any philosophy which relies on violent conflict to achieve its goals is tacitly admitting that it cannot win the hearts and minds of people via ideas alone.\n\nEdit to say, I have a busy day ahead so I wont be responding lol, but doesn’t mean I agree or don’t want to challenge this vapid Marxist pov\n\nAnd once more: lol @ downvoters constantly butthurt that their Marxist pov is challenged ","removed":false,"published":"2025-02-04T12:01:26.635221Z","updated":"2025-02-04T12:12:00.084011Z","deleted":false,"ap_id":"https://lemmy.world/comment/14877163","local":false,"path":"0.13415901","distinguished":false,"language_id":0},"creator":{"id":4580792,"name":"nifty","display_name":"nifty","avatar":"https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/15f417de-b482-4f34-a0bc-98539c4b42b5.jpeg","banned":false,"published":"2023-12-07T20:00:42.737963Z","actor_id":"https://lemmy.world/u/nifty","bio":"libera te tutemet ex machina, and shitpost~~","local":false,"banner":"https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/b11e8f36-d1d8-4c42-ae55-a856e1ce2a9f.jpeg","deleted":false,"bot_account":false,"instance_id":2},"post":{"id":20380141,"name":"Explaining capitalism to aliens","url":"https://lemmy.ml/pictrs/image/54b44aed-b126-43b1-8a98-e060ae346507.jpeg","body":"","creator_id":2507410,"community_id":505,"removed":false,"locked":false,"published":"2025-02-04T03:49:42.508758Z","updated":"2025-02-07T09:11:59.159310Z","deleted":false,"nsfw":false,"ap_id":"https://lemmy.ml/post/25583380","local":false,"language_id":0,"featured_community":false,"featured_local":false,"url_content_type":"image/jpeg","alt_text":""},"community":{"id":505,"name":"comics","title":"Comics","description":"This is a community for everything comics related! 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If parts of Marxism were to be proven incorrect, those would be dropped and the new theory adapted. That's the strength of the Dialectical Materialist method of learning, which is similar to the scientific method but built-in to Marxism as a concept. Either way, on to your main comment. \n\nFor point 1, you talk about why the concept of ownership of, say, a factory is foreign. Your point misunderstands theirs. The belief in a societal concept of \"ownership\" is separate from the actual, real world mechanisms at play. What is \"morally correct\" doesn't guide society, starving people don't refuse to steal bread because of *morals.* The reasoning behind ownership is punishment by the state for not respecting it. \n\nFor your second, it's pretty clear that these contracts heavily benefit the owners of the contracts at the expense of those who don't. You are correct in saying that without the State, the workers would simply take the factories, but this wasn't because \"society\" decided it, but the owners of Capital in the first place. \n\nYour point on Marxism is a strawman. Marxists believe administration, laws, and government are necessary, but that over time as the economy is publicly owned and planned there will cease to be real class distinctions, and thus the \"State,\" the elements of government that exist purely for class oppression, would wither. Laws would still exist along with public service workers, but would play different roles to how society is run today with heavily millitarized police forces and massive armies between hard borders. \n\nYour next point, the third outlined, is nihilism (and chauvanism towards the end). When presented with the case that holders of Capital have far more power than those without, you sidestep that equation and say *any* labor is slavery. Instead of grappling with the presented idea of equal ownership and thus more even power dynamics, you choose to not engage at all or even consider it. This is nihilism. \n\nThe second part of your third point, the ability to choose where you work, is already a part of Marxist thinking and is in place in Vietnam and the PRC, which you allude *isn't* possible. Moreover, you make an appeal to democracy while avoiding tackling the imbalance of power between factory owners and workers, a society with equal ownership is inherently *more* democratic as the voices of the people are more equalized. \n\nYour final point, the \"reliance on violence\" rather than \"hearts and minds\" applies more to liberalism than Marxism. In an inherently violent, imbalanced system like Capitalism, the violence is systemic and daily. The appeal to \"hearts and minds\" is to quell opposition to this daily violence. No Marxist *wants* violence, but Marxists accept that revolution is necessary to move beyond this industrialized system of violence. \n\nThe reality of Liberalism is violence and Imperialism, from murdering 1 million Iraqis for the pursuit of profits to dropping napalm and Agent Orange on the Vietnamese for daring to go against the US-dominated world marketplace to dropping more tons of bombs on Korea than the entire pacific front of World War 2, Liberalism dons the mask of \"winning hearts and minds\" for its public while slaughtering without care innocents to the tune of millions. \n\nYou don't have to reply, but you can feel free to. I have my own criticisms of the comic, the Aliens certainly would have gone through similar economic systems before reaching their current, likely Communist Mode of Production and therefore would understand the Capitalist (unless they failed to write down their history, which is unlikely as well), but I don't think your critique is good either. 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When you run a country like an army, then it’s very likely to get good results. Yes, the people there have recourse via law (against each other, not the state), and freedom to decide where to work, but that freedom is limited when there are no natural mechanisms to create sources to direct productivity. Many new grads are jobless or underemployed.\n\n> you talk about why the concept of ownership of, say, a factory is foreign. Your point misunderstands theirs. The belief in a societal concept of “ownership” is separate from the actual, real world mechanisms at play. What is “morally correct” doesn’t guide society, starving people don’t refuse to steal bread because of morals. The reasoning behind ownership is punishment by the state for not respecting it.\n\nSo you say Marxist don’t believe moral superiority and then come out with this lol? Why isn’t owning moral good? If you give resources to acquire something, then why shouldn’t it be yours? The reason why Marxists insist on state ownership of means of production is because they fear losing control and power. The people don’t and wont own anything, just as they don’t in China or Vietnam.\n\n> In an inherently violent, imbalanced system like Capitalism, the violence is systemic and daily.\n\nThe problems are due to centralization of power and control. That’s why regulations protect everyone, including the wealthy and powerful. That’s why monopolies are dangerous to freedom. \n\n> The reality of Liberalism is violence and Imperialism, from murdering 1 million Iraqis for the pursuit of profits to dropping napalm and Agent Orange on the Vietnamese for daring to go against the US-dominated world marketplace to dropping more tons of bombs on Korea than the entire pacific front of World War 2, Liberalism dons the mask of “winning hearts and minds” for its public while slaughtering without care innocents to the tune of millions\n\nYou cant seriously say that Marxist nations won’t do asshole things to each other. This is magical thinking again. The problem is greedy people will always preserve themselves and their power, that’s what Stalin did. That’s what Lenin did. That’s what Marx would have done, if he had gotten the chance.\n\nI am not saying the world is perfect right now. 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That doesn't mean we don't believe that public service workers aren't necessary. Further, you have to understand that in a fully publicly owned and planned economy, any private ownership would immediately fail to compete with the large public trusts, there isn't an incentive to take by violence ownership of a factory in the first place. \n\nAs for your second, this is the more interesting paragraph from a Marxian perspective. I'll address it in parts, as each deserves its own emphasis. \n\nCapitalism is progressive in comparison to feudalism. With the influx of Capitalism has come a dramatic increase in development of the Productive Forces, themselves the driving factor of material conditions. This has come with numerous benefits and many drawbacks, but overall has been positive with respect to feudalism. At least, until Capitalism grew to Imperialism around the turn of the 20th century. \n\nProfits in Capitalism are at the discretion of the owners. This does not mean profits are *correctly* distributed to improve the economy, but to improve *profitability.* Marketing, Advertisements, the concept of \"enshittification\" all drives from this. Further, these owners are not necessarily the competent, but the lucky. Profits are rewarded to those with the Capital to invest, not the skill to manage. Money is used to purchase commodities (through production) which is sold for higher quantities of money, and this cycle repeats. Competition lowers *rates* of profit through incentivizing automation, which lowers cost of production and increases barrier to entry. This results in monopoly and centralization, Capitalism chokes itself. \n\nUltimately, markets are useful up until a certain point, at which point Public Ownership and Planning makes far more economic sense. We are well-beyond that point in most developed Capitalist economies that haven't yet de-industrialized in favor of full Imperialism. Competition kills itself and becomes unaccountable monopoly, at which point the means of public ownership and planning become far more efficient as planning infrastructure is well-developed and rather than extracting monopoly profits, the benefits of automation can keep costs low and redirected towards further improvement. ","removed":false,"published":"2025-02-04T13:22:16.532112Z","updated":"2025-02-04T14:30:45.453248Z","deleted":false,"ap_id":"https://lemmy.ml/comment/16509473","local":false,"path":"0.13415901.13416251.13416838.13417024","distinguished":false,"language_id":0},"creator":{"id":5163862,"name":"Cowbee","display_name":"Cowbee [he/they]","avatar":"https://lemmy.ml/pictrs/image/c18ce632-5fb5-4888-8226-3dc55a07acc4.jpeg","banned":false,"published":"2023-12-31T19:47:40.358778Z","actor_id":"https://lemmy.ml/u/Cowbee","bio":"Actually, this town has more than enough room for the two of us\n\nHe/him or they/them, doesn't matter too much\n\nMarxist-Leninist ☭\n\nInterested in Marxism-Leninism, but don't know where to start? 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I agree with you that the latter half of my original comment is more substantial. I will look at the last two paragraphs of your comment.\n\nRegarding the competency of capitalists, I did not claim that the most competent people in society own capital, this is clearly not true. However, the capitalist system provides strong incentives for correct decisionmaking, and also, to an extent, rewards innovative and generally smart investments and decisions with capital. Also, in practice people who own the capital are not necessarily the same as people who manage it, and those are certainly competent.\n\nYou also made a point I do not agree with: while I do not deny that capitalism has a tendency towards monopoly and centralisation, I do not agree with the idea that it negates itself dialectically. I believe that in the 20th century many of the flaws of the previously existing capitalist system were suppressed by a change in policy. It seems to me that it is not necessarily the case that capitalism will destroy itself, as it is concievable that markets will be used in a way that will avoid these pitfalls. I see the argument you are making(at the end of your comment), and it is compelling, but I still am not convinced that markets should be abandoned.\n\nI do not believe that markets are just automatically lead everyone to good outcomes and are just good by themselves. This is very naive. I do understand that what is profitable in a market system is not necessarily good for society. Overall, however, the positive aspects of markets, in my opinion, outweigh the negatives and those negative aspects can be accounted for since markets can be utilised in different ways.\n\n\n\nFinally, I would like to ask you about your response to accusations of marxist dogmatism. While it seems like Marxists are indeed ready to concede that Marxism as it exists currently is not perfect, and are ready to criticise and change their theory, since said theory exists as a part of a dialectical process that is believed to asymptotically approach truth(if I understand dialectical materialism correctly), it would not be incorrect to say that Marxism, not as it exists now but as a dialectical process is, according to Marxists, approaching truth, and that is why, I suppose, Marxists do not doubt that Marxism as a whole is true, but rather only expect it to change.\n\nAlso, historical materialism is, in my opinion, not proven at all, which is not necessarily a bad thing, it can still be useful as a conceptual instrument, yet it is seemingly accepted as scientific fact by many Marxists.","removed":false,"published":"2025-02-04T15:41:33.110666Z","updated":"2025-02-04T15:47:36.539672Z","deleted":false,"ap_id":"https://lemmy.world/comment/14880581","local":false,"path":"0.13415901.13416251.13416838.13417024.13419528","distinguished":false,"language_id":0},"creator":{"id":11930281,"name":"galanthus","banned":false,"published":"2024-08-09T07:49:51.038223Z","actor_id":"https://lemmy.world/u/galanthus","local":false,"deleted":false,"bot_account":false,"instance_id":2},"post":{"id":20380141,"name":"Explaining capitalism to aliens","url":"https://lemmy.ml/pictrs/image/54b44aed-b126-43b1-8a98-e060ae346507.jpeg","body":"","creator_id":2507410,"community_id":505,"removed":false,"locked":false,"published":"2025-02-04T03:49:42.508758Z","updated":"2025-02-07T09:11:59.159310Z","deleted":false,"nsfw":false,"ap_id":"https://lemmy.ml/post/25583380","local":false,"language_id":0,"featured_community":false,"featured_local":false,"url_content_type":"image/jpeg","alt_text":""},"community":{"id":505,"name":"comics","title":"Comics","description":"This is a community for everything comics related! 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In a profit-driven market-based system, the \"correct\" solution is the profitable one. What's profitable is not necessarily what's good for society, see the oil and gas industry destroying the planet, and the car industry lobbying against efficient public transit. Further, innovation is, where possible, publicly funded for Private profits, the myth of Capitalist \"risk taking\" is just that, a myth. The risks are public, the profits are private. Why not make both public?\n\nYour next paragraph, I *believe* you are referring to Social Safety Nets as they appeared. I think you would be making an error in analysis if you didn't see *why* they arose: increased revolutionary pressure, and the Soviet Union providing massively expanded safety nets like free education and healthcare. The decline in Safety Nets after the dissolution of the USSR isn't a coincidence. Further, the Global North has evolved into Imperialism, it offloads its industry to the Global South to super-exploit for domestic super-profits. For more on that, I recommend reading Lenin's *[Imperialism, the Highest Stage of Capitalism.](http://www.marx2mao.com/Lenin/IMP16.html)*\n\nThe thing with markets is that they are a tool. They don't make sense in tribal societies, nor will they make sense in future, highly developed societies, but they serve a purpose in certain levels of development. The points and duration of their usefulness depends on the industry. You can see this in practice in the PRC, actually, who hold in public heavy industry like Steel, Energy, banking, as well as critical industries, etc and use markets more to develop light industry. \n\nAs for Marxist dogmatism, it's a known process. Those dogmatists are referred to as\"Ultraleft\" or perhaps \"Left-Communists.\" These are more common in areas without successful revolution or organization, mainly Western countries. If you want to learn more, I recommend Lenin's *[\"Left-Wing\" Communism.](http://www.marx2mao.com/Lenin/LWC20.html)* Marxism is an analytical tool more than anything, and in all AES states that have seen successful revolution, theory has been adjusted and modified based on their conditions and times. If an aspect of theory becomes useless or wrong, correct Marxist analysis is to re-evaluate it and toss it or adjust it. This is the concept of \"Criticism and Self-Criticism.\"\n\nAs for Historical Materialism, it has largely been proven as a useful analysis of class dynamics and the motion of history. I am not sure what you disagree with, so there isn't much to address here or defend beyond saying \"I think it's good.\"\n\n(Side note: I upvoted you here, you're engaging in good-faith, didn't want you to see the downvote and think that was me)","removed":false,"published":"2025-02-04T16:06:50.100018Z","updated":"2025-02-04T16:30:28.412197Z","deleted":false,"ap_id":"https://lemmy.ml/comment/16512430","local":false,"path":"0.13415901.13416251.13416838.13417024.13419528.13420006","distinguished":false,"language_id":0},"creator":{"id":5163862,"name":"Cowbee","display_name":"Cowbee [he/they]","avatar":"https://lemmy.ml/pictrs/image/c18ce632-5fb5-4888-8226-3dc55a07acc4.jpeg","banned":false,"published":"2023-12-31T19:47:40.358778Z","actor_id":"https://lemmy.ml/u/Cowbee","bio":"Actually, this town has more than enough room for the two of us\n\nHe/him or they/them, doesn't matter too much\n\nMarxist-Leninist ☭\n\nInterested in Marxism-Leninism, but don't know where to start? 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Also, I believe that markets make resource allocation and general management of the economy more efficient and also drive growth. I never claimed that they drive technological progress. I would say I am not convinced they will become obsolete in the future as you describe it(I do not expect them to be eternal, however).\n\nI should say, regarding your second paragraph, that it does not matter why these policies were inplemented since they might as well be implemented again for a similar or a different reason, and if there is a mode of existence of capitalism which you admit is not self destructive that disputes your point regardless of why it can come to be.\n\nI would say that Marxism is a great conceptual tool, but I do think that it should not pretend to be scientific. It relies on unfalsifiable claims(like historical materialism) and as I said, the dialectical process of Marxism is never dismissed by changes in theory, only affirmed.\n\nI would also say that the most dogmatic Marxism is not in the west but in Marxist countries. At least here in the former USSR it is absurd how dogmatic everyone was in academia and everywhere else really.\n\nPersonally, while I understand that it can be a useful conceptual tool, I do not like historical materialism. You can make causal claims in retrospect, saying that this or that had, by necessity, to come after something else. But I would say this is only true now, and it might not have been true then. \n\nHistory is a capricious lady. I wonder what Marxists think about why the communist revolution started here, in the most backwards country in Europe, and not in the developed western Europe, with later stage capitalism and a more conscious proletariat.\n\n","removed":false,"published":"2025-02-04T16:30:30.105260Z","deleted":false,"ap_id":"https://lemmy.world/comment/14881476","local":false,"path":"0.13415901.13416251.13416838.13417024.13419528.13420006.13420466","distinguished":false,"language_id":0},"creator":{"id":11930281,"name":"galanthus","banned":false,"published":"2024-08-09T07:49:51.038223Z","actor_id":"https://lemmy.world/u/galanthus","local":false,"deleted":false,"bot_account":false,"instance_id":2},"post":{"id":20380141,"name":"Explaining capitalism to aliens","url":"https://lemmy.ml/pictrs/image/54b44aed-b126-43b1-8a98-e060ae346507.jpeg","body":"","creator_id":2507410,"community_id":505,"removed":false,"locked":false,"published":"2025-02-04T03:49:42.508758Z","updated":"2025-02-07T09:11:59.159310Z","deleted":false,"nsfw":false,"ap_id":"https://lemmy.ml/post/25583380","local":false,"language_id":0,"featured_community":false,"featured_local":false,"url_content_type":"image/jpeg","alt_text":""},"community":{"id":505,"name":"comics","title":"Comics","description":"This is a community for everything comics related! 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We are in agreement that initially they are helpful at developing, that's actually why Marx believed Capitalism to pave the way for Socialism. \n\nFor your second, it absolutely matters why social safety nets appeared. Moreover, it matters why they are disappearing. Capitalism's death clock, so to speak, is that it erodes competition as it reaches monopoly and the Rate of Profit falls. Absolute profits are raised through combination of industry and linking of the supply chain, but this has a limit. That's why it extends outward, towards Imperialism. Capitalism will *always* head towards centralization, and will always head towards decreased rates of profit and increases in barriers to competition. \n\nMarxism is scientific in that it is a working framework for analysis. I don't know what you mean by Historical Materialism being impossible to falsify. \n\nAs for dogmatism, it isn't impossible to find in AES states, but as a ratio of the overall population of Marxists, dogmatism is higher in the West, where Marxism is uncommon and has seen no revolution. It follows that those that haven't tested theory to practice may have an idealistic and dogmatic interpretation of it. \n\nAs for why Marxists believe the revolution happened in Tsarist Russia first, the answer is Imperialism, as outlined by Lenin in the previous comment. Marx was not alive to see the existence of Monopoly Capitalism, and while he predicted aspects of Imperialism, it was Lenin's analysis of Imperialism as it materialized that expanded on Marx. Imperialized countries form the weakest link in the chain of Capitalism, while developed Imperialist countries go through a process of temporary (and it must be temporary as long as the Tendency for the Rate of Profit to fall exists) creates a \"labor aristocracy\" thay is \"bribed\" by the fruits of this process that de-proletarianizes the populace. We will actually potentially see the US seeing a \"re-proletarianization\" due to an emphasis on restarting industry as a response to decaying Imperialism, as more nations turn away from the US Empire, and potentially a revolution (though not immediately).","removed":false,"published":"2025-02-04T16:53:16.781303Z","deleted":false,"ap_id":"https://lemmy.ml/comment/16513304","local":false,"path":"0.13415901.13416251.13416838.13417024.13419528.13420006.13420466.13420896","distinguished":false,"language_id":0},"creator":{"id":5163862,"name":"Cowbee","display_name":"Cowbee [he/they]","avatar":"https://lemmy.ml/pictrs/image/c18ce632-5fb5-4888-8226-3dc55a07acc4.jpeg","banned":false,"published":"2023-12-31T19:47:40.358778Z","actor_id":"https://lemmy.ml/u/Cowbee","bio":"Actually, this town has more than enough room for the two of us\n\nHe/him or they/them, doesn't matter too much\n\nMarxist-Leninist ☭\n\nInterested in Marxism-Leninism, but don't know where to start? 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You see in everything historical necessity, it was never possible for safety nets to remain in place, capitalism has to negate itself, etc. You can just point to any event, see in that the unalterable course of history and use it as an argument, but why would I accept it?\n\nHegelian dialectics is a perfectly working framework for analysis(I like Hegel more than Marx), but it is not scientific, is it? It is philosophical.\n\nThe point about imperial Russia is interesting. I think you lost a part of the paragraph somewhere, but I think I got it. So if re-proletarisation is necessary for revolution why is imperialism the last stage of capitalism, do we not have a sort of backwards motion here?","removed":false,"published":"2025-02-04T17:21:54.357626Z","deleted":false,"ap_id":"https://lemmy.world/comment/14882430","local":false,"path":"0.13415901.13416251.13416838.13417024.13419528.13420006.13420466.13420896.13421474","distinguished":false,"language_id":0},"creator":{"id":11930281,"name":"galanthus","banned":false,"published":"2024-08-09T07:49:51.038223Z","actor_id":"https://lemmy.world/u/galanthus","local":false,"deleted":false,"bot_account":false,"instance_id":2},"post":{"id":20380141,"name":"Explaining capitalism to aliens","url":"https://lemmy.ml/pictrs/image/54b44aed-b126-43b1-8a98-e060ae346507.jpeg","body":"","creator_id":2507410,"community_id":505,"removed":false,"locked":false,"published":"2025-02-04T03:49:42.508758Z","updated":"2025-02-07T09:11:59.159310Z","deleted":false,"nsfw":false,"ap_id":"https://lemmy.ml/post/25583380","local":false,"language_id":0,"featured_community":false,"featured_local":false,"url_content_type":"image/jpeg","alt_text":""},"community":{"id":505,"name":"comics","title":"Comics","description":"This is a community for everything comics related! 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Safety Nets *could* remain temporarily, but you can't expand Imperialism beyond the limits of Earth and you can't stop the mechanisms of competition from necessitating larger trusts, only slow that rate down. As industry advances, it is required to expand, and when said expansion suffocates competition by killing off its chance of opposition, there ceases to be any benefit to Capitalism. \n\nAs for Hegel vs Marx, I would say the Idealist nature of Hegelian Dialectics negates its practicality for analyzing the real world. It's certainly an interesting framework, but Materialism will inherently be more grounded in scientific analysis and thus practicality. \n\nYour last paragraph is the most interesting. For starters, we have not seen a revolution in an Imperialist country, only victims of Imperialism. The reason Marxists believe it to be the *last* is because it chokes itself, causing Imperialized countries to revolt or decouple and cripple the profits of the Imperialist countries, which takes away from the \"bribes\" for the labor aristocracy. The Tendency for the Rate of Profit to Fall exists regardless (and if you want me to go over that I can, I think you've been glossing over this one but it's actually critical for analysis of Capitalism as self-defeating as rates of profit approach zero).\n\nThis process of \"re-proletarianization\" is a hypothesis, not a real observation yet. We will have to watch the US working class and how it organizes (or doesn't) in the face of tariffs and an attempt at restarting industrialization. By Imperialism's weakening, monopoly Capitalism remains in place but without the super-profits for bribery, which means you have an increasingly socialized Proletariat in the Imperial Core and decaying Material Conditions. ","removed":false,"published":"2025-02-04T17:32:30.752075Z","deleted":false,"ap_id":"https://lemmy.ml/comment/16514134","local":false,"path":"0.13415901.13416251.13416838.13417024.13419528.13420006.13420466.13420896.13421474.13421695","distinguished":false,"language_id":0},"creator":{"id":5163862,"name":"Cowbee","display_name":"Cowbee [he/they]","avatar":"https://lemmy.ml/pictrs/image/c18ce632-5fb5-4888-8226-3dc55a07acc4.jpeg","banned":false,"published":"2023-12-31T19:47:40.358778Z","actor_id":"https://lemmy.ml/u/Cowbee","bio":"Actually, this town has more than enough room for the two of us\n\nHe/him or they/them, doesn't matter too much\n\nMarxist-Leninist ☭\n\nInterested in Marxism-Leninism, but don't know where to start? 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I heard the view that the service economy can grow regardless of natural resources, but I suppose you would say to that that it is only possible in imperialistic countries that move industry elsewhere. \n\nI will think on the matter, and maybe come up with counterarguments. I am not an economist, so the finer details of markets are eluding me. In any case, Marxism or not, let us hope for a few more decades of decadent bourgeois life.","removed":false,"published":"2025-02-04T17:53:44.789909Z","deleted":false,"ap_id":"https://lemmy.world/comment/14883060","local":false,"path":"0.13415901.13416251.13416838.13417024.13419528.13420006.13420466.13420896.13421474.13421695.13422140","distinguished":false,"language_id":0},"creator":{"id":11930281,"name":"galanthus","banned":false,"published":"2024-08-09T07:49:51.038223Z","actor_id":"https://lemmy.world/u/galanthus","local":false,"deleted":false,"bot_account":false,"instance_id":2},"post":{"id":20380141,"name":"Explaining capitalism to aliens","url":"https://lemmy.ml/pictrs/image/54b44aed-b126-43b1-8a98-e060ae346507.jpeg","body":"","creator_id":2507410,"community_id":505,"removed":false,"locked":false,"published":"2025-02-04T03:49:42.508758Z","updated":"2025-02-07T09:11:59.159310Z","deleted":false,"nsfw":false,"ap_id":"https://lemmy.ml/post/25583380","local":false,"language_id":0,"featured_community":false,"featured_local":false,"url_content_type":"image/jpeg","alt_text":""},"community":{"id":505,"name":"comics","title":"Comics","description":"This is a community for everything comics related! 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China is just one of those. I don't know what you mean by \"running a country like an army.\" Moreover, it's fairly well documented that the economic success of China lies in its focus on increasing the productive forces, and relying on central planning and limited competition for efficiency within SOEs, allowing the Private Sector to develop lighter and less critical industries. \n\nAs for the pivot to moralistic arguments, that really isn't the point. \"Moralism\" isn't what drives material reality, just our interpretation of it. The clear fact is that in order to profit, Capitalists must pay workers less than the value they create. This is unnecessary and inefficient, moreso as markets monopolize and competition wanes in favor of large cartels and syndicates. \n\nCentralization of markets is a necessary consequence of development. The more industry advances, the further the barrier to entry into a given sector raises, and the lower the rate of profit falls. You can't stop this process, you can't remain in a static state of motion without moving. If centralization is a fact, then it is better to democratize and publicly own and plan, rather than leaving it to the wealthy few. \n\nYour point on \"Marxist nations doing asshole things to each other\" is a non-sequitor. I never claimed that in the first place, moreover it's important to analyze *why* countries behave in \"asshole ways\" to begin with. The US Empire murdered 1 million Iraqis for profit, and tried to brutally crush Korea and Vietnam for refusing to go along with US-dominated world markets. Same with Cuba. The difference with Socialism is that the profit motive is superceded by human control and planning, and the economy can be directed for the good of the people. This doesn't prevent *all* conflict, but fundamentally shrinks the causes for conflict. \n\nYou aren't trying to make the current system less hellish, really, you're arguing non-sequitors and potentially deliberate misinterpretations of the claims of Marxists to argue against a better world. ","removed":false,"published":"2025-02-04T14:06:01.773136Z","deleted":false,"ap_id":"https://lemmy.ml/comment/16510199","local":false,"path":"0.13415901.13416251.13417454.13417747","distinguished":false,"language_id":0},"creator":{"id":5163862,"name":"Cowbee","display_name":"Cowbee [he/they]","avatar":"https://lemmy.ml/pictrs/image/c18ce632-5fb5-4888-8226-3dc55a07acc4.jpeg","banned":false,"published":"2023-12-31T19:47:40.358778Z","actor_id":"https://lemmy.ml/u/Cowbee","bio":"Actually, this town has more than enough room for the two of us\n\nHe/him or they/them, doesn't matter too much\n\nMarxist-Leninist ☭\n\nInterested in Marxism-Leninism, but don't know where to start? 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The issues with Capitalism don't arise from \"selfishness.\" Rather, Capitalism necessarily monopolizes and centralizes over time, and competition lowers the rate of profit through automation and raises the barrier to entry. Earlier on, markets can be a useful tool for rapid development, especially when accompanied by a central government carefully pruning and directing them to avoid exploitation where possible, but as markets coalesce into syndicates and large monopolies the benefits of competition disappear gradually. At this point, it makes clear sense to publicly own and plan.\n\nFurther, Marxists don't believe people will \"work for the common good.\" At almost all phases of Socialism and Communism, people will almost certainly be paid for their labor, be it through traditional currencies in the earlier stages of Socialism to Labour Vouchers, distributed centrally and destroyed upon first use, in the earlier stages of Communism. This is how all Socialist societies have functioned. \n\nWhen you have to rely on strawmen and, again, non-sequitors in order to feign a point, all you do is feed Marxists with cheap rhetorical wins. I genuinely question your motives here, if you don't present points in good-faith you only make Marxism look better. This is only compounded by loud declarations of \"resistance\" towards a mysterious \"downvote brigade,\" it's like you enjoy going against the grain for the sake of it. \n\nAs for the PRC, yes. There are 8 political parties other than the CPC that work together to form the governing body of the PRC, and there are democratic practices at play from the local to the national level. 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The issues with Capitalism don’t arise from “selfishness.” Rather, Capitalism necessarily monopolizes and centralizes over time, and competition lowers the rate of profit through automation and raises the barrier to entry. \n\nThose issues are related to corruption, as mentioned. Corruption exists in all forms of economic systems. The problem with a system which relies on central planning is that corruption is harder to root out or beat via democratic means.\n\n> Further, Marxists don’t believe people will “work for the common good.” At almost all phases of Socialism and Communism, people will almost certainly be paid for their labor, be it through traditional currencies in the earlier stages of Socialism to Labour Vouchers, distributed centrally and destroyed upon first use, in the earlier stages of Communism. This is how all Socialist societies have functioned.\n\nI am saying that Marxists believe that people don’t want to own properties or the means of production in favor of central planning. Why shouldn’t they? Because they’re so altruistic and want to favor those who will never be able to achieve such means?\n\nThe fact is that some people will have better resources to become capitalists, but that doesn’t mean it’s okay to do away with capitalism. What makes sense then is to make it easier for those who cannot or do not want to become capitalists to have a life free from being abused or harmed.","removed":false,"published":"2025-02-04T15:35:15.610592Z","deleted":false,"ap_id":"https://lemmy.world/comment/14880457","local":false,"path":"0.13415901.13416251.13417454.13417747.13418211.13418360.13419386","distinguished":false,"language_id":0},"creator":{"id":4580792,"name":"nifty","display_name":"nifty","avatar":"https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/15f417de-b482-4f34-a0bc-98539c4b42b5.jpeg","banned":false,"published":"2023-12-07T20:00:42.737963Z","actor_id":"https://lemmy.world/u/nifty","bio":"libera te tutemet ex machina, and shitpost~~","local":false,"banner":"https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/b11e8f36-d1d8-4c42-ae55-a856e1ce2a9f.jpeg","deleted":false,"bot_account":false,"instance_id":2},"post":{"id":20380141,"name":"Explaining capitalism to aliens","url":"https://lemmy.ml/pictrs/image/54b44aed-b126-43b1-8a98-e060ae346507.jpeg","body":"","creator_id":2507410,"community_id":505,"removed":false,"locked":false,"published":"2025-02-04T03:49:42.508758Z","updated":"2025-02-07T09:11:59.159310Z","deleted":false,"nsfw":false,"ap_id":"https://lemmy.ml/post/25583380","local":false,"language_id":0,"featured_community":false,"featured_local":false,"url_content_type":"image/jpeg","alt_text":""},"community":{"id":505,"name":"comics","title":"Comics","description":"This is a community for everything comics related! 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Competition accelerates this. Even without any corruption whatsoever, this process will continue, it's a consequence of markets in general. Those that outcompete absorb or kill off those who undercompete until few large syndicates remain. \n\nSecond, claiming that because corruption exists in all Modes of Production doesn't mean it exists *to equal degrees and scales* in all Modes of Production. This is, again, more of a point of nihilism, by refusing to analyze the causes and mechanisms of corruption and just applying it in blanket terms, your analysis is not very useful for addressing it. \n\nThird, you never justify why a system based on public ownership and planning is harder to root out corruption, you just leave it as a hanging thesis. What democratic means are more effective when you have a handful of unaccountable individuals in charge of firms, instead of Socialist organization along democratic lines?\n\nAs for your second point, I legitimately have no idea what you're trying to get at. Shifting to public ownership and planning would dramatically *increase* the level of influence the average individual has over the economy and how it runs, as opposed to Capitalism where that privledge is in the hands of the wealthy Capitalists. Most people would give up their ability to form a business if it meant greater quality of life, because the vast majority *can't* start businesses, a rule that becomes increasingly true as barriers to entry increase due to monopolization and increased costs of industrial equipment as it further specializes. \n\nYour last paragraph isn't really a point against Marxism, or much of a point at all. Safety nets are band-aids given as concessions from the Capitalists, and erode when first available. Capitalist countries are controlled by the wealthy few, there isn't a genuine democracy in place. For that to occur, ownership needs to be more equal, which requires Working Class supremacy. 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Like this,\n\n> Even without any corruption whatsoever, this process will continue, it’s a consequence of markets in general. Those that outcompete absorb or kill off those who undercompete until few large syndicates remain.\n\nMonopolies are not an inherent consequence of free market economics, in fact that’s why we have anti-monopoly actions in many industries. That’s why regulatory concerns exist in the first place.\n\n> Second, claiming that because corruption exists in all Modes of Production doesn’t mean it exists to equal degrees and scales in all Modes of Production. This is, again, more of a point of nihilism, by refusing to analyze the causes and mechanisms of corruption and just applying it in blanket terms, your analysis is not very useful for addressing it.\n\nThat’s fine, but historically what we’ve observed is that centrally planned economies tend to lean autocratic. Or do you really believe that select groups could petition Stalins committees for anything that deviated from his vision of what society should be. Even with Trump trying to do away with birthright citizenship it can’t be undone constitutionally.\n\n> Third, you never justify why a system based on public ownership and planning is harder to root out corruption, you just leave it as a hanging thesis. What democratic means are more effective when you have a handful of unaccountable individuals in charge of firms, instead of Socialist organization along democratic lines?\n\nSimply because of what I’ve observed in existing places which follow Marxist ideology. The average Chinese citizen does not have any power over what the state does. The same goes for the average Vietnamese citizen. Meanwhile even small business owners can provide input to their states in western democracies and effect regulations.\n\n> As for your second point, I legitimately have no idea what you’re trying to get at. Shifting to public ownership and planning would dramatically increase the level of influence the average individual has over the economy and how it runs\n\nThis is patently untrue based on anything that’s factually happened over the course of recent history. This tells me your perspective is either misguided or disingenuous.\n\n> Capitalist countries are controlled by the wealthy few, there isn’t a genuine democracy in place.\n\nPeople in western democracies can effectively vote for different types of representatives, and the pov of those representatives have wide ranging consequences. In fact that’s exactly why western democracies are experiencing destabilization via nation state propaganda which makes their citizens hate their very countries and the systems they’re based on. This is very different from any scenario that has existed in any socialist or Marxist state, including USSR or China or Vietnam.\n\nThe fact that people want to extol the virtues of Marxist ideas based on nothing but magical and wishful thinking is sad.","removed":false,"published":"2025-02-04T21:40:34.244841Z","updated":"2025-02-04T21:41:53.979827Z","deleted":false,"ap_id":"https://lemmy.world/comment/14887373","local":false,"path":"0.13415901.13416251.13417454.13417747.13418211.13418360.13419386.13419665.13426641","distinguished":false,"language_id":0},"creator":{"id":4580792,"name":"nifty","display_name":"nifty","avatar":"https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/15f417de-b482-4f34-a0bc-98539c4b42b5.jpeg","banned":false,"published":"2023-12-07T20:00:42.737963Z","actor_id":"https://lemmy.world/u/nifty","bio":"libera te tutemet ex machina, and shitpost~~","local":false,"banner":"https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/b11e8f36-d1d8-4c42-ae55-a856e1ce2a9f.jpeg","deleted":false,"bot_account":false,"instance_id":2},"post":{"id":20380141,"name":"Explaining capitalism to aliens","url":"https://lemmy.ml/pictrs/image/54b44aed-b126-43b1-8a98-e060ae346507.jpeg","body":"","creator_id":2507410,"community_id":505,"removed":false,"locked":false,"published":"2025-02-04T03:49:42.508758Z","updated":"2025-02-07T09:11:59.159310Z","deleted":false,"nsfw":false,"ap_id":"https://lemmy.ml/post/25583380","local":false,"language_id":0,"featured_community":false,"featured_local":false,"url_content_type":"image/jpeg","alt_text":""},"community":{"id":505,"name":"comics","title":"Comics","description":"This is a community for everything comics related! 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Competition reduces the rate of profit, which is only combatted through expansion, whether it be joining firms together or international expansion a la Imperialism. To not do so would lower the rate of profit to zero and collapse the economy. \n\nCentrally planned economies have been autocratic towards Capitalists, sure, but have had their own democratic structures. See *[Soviet Democracy](https://comlib.encryptionin.space/epubs/soviet-democracy/)* by Pat Sloan for more on how they functioned and if they functioned well (they did, though not without imperfections).\n\nThe average Chinese and Vietnamese citizens can absolutely impact government, especially local gocernment. Democracy for business owners isn't genuine democracy, that's a dictatorship of the bourgeoisie. \n\nAs for citizens having more control in publicly owned and planned economies, it *is* true. See the formerly linked *[Soviet Democracy](https://comlib.encryptionin.space/epubs/soviet-democracy/)*, as well as *[Is the Red Flag Flying? Political Economy of the Soviet Union](https://comlib.encryptionin.space/epubs/is-the-red-flag-flying/)* as well as *[This Soviet World](https://comlib.encryptionin.space/epubs/this-soviet-world/)* as well as *[Blackshirts and Reds](https://comlib.encryptionin.space/epubs/blackshirts-and-reds/)* as well as *[Workplace Democracy In Action in the CPC](https://archive.ph/DwD1n)*. Simply stating \"no\" isn't a point, I can tell you what AES states are and were like but if you're going to respond with \"no,\" all I can do is show you sources proving otherwise. \n\n![](https://lemmy.ml/pictrs/image/7ba07990-1bde-48d3-8323-52605bcdfee4.png)\n\nAs for the destabilization in western countries, its because the representatives have a narrow vision of what you can vote for and ultimately serve the Bourgeoisie over all else. There isn't some foreign conspiracy to take down the US from within the electoral system, that's chauvanism on display and is utterly divorced from reality.\n\nMarxists are Marxists because of the real benefits of Socialism worldwide that are measurable and trackable, calling it \"magical and wishful thinking\" is just a thought-terminating cliché. ","removed":false,"published":"2025-02-04T21:56:56.928497Z","deleted":false,"ap_id":"https://lemmy.ml/comment/16519429","local":false,"path":"0.13415901.13416251.13417454.13417747.13418211.13418360.13419386.13419665.13426641.13426941","distinguished":false,"language_id":0},"creator":{"id":5163862,"name":"Cowbee","display_name":"Cowbee [he/they]","avatar":"https://lemmy.ml/pictrs/image/c18ce632-5fb5-4888-8226-3dc55a07acc4.jpeg","banned":false,"published":"2023-12-31T19:47:40.358778Z","actor_id":"https://lemmy.ml/u/Cowbee","bio":"Actually, this town has more than enough room for the two of us\n\nHe/him or they/them, doesn't matter too much\n\nMarxist-Leninist ☭\n\nInterested in Marxism-Leninism, but don't know where to start? 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Exploitation becomes more naked, competition dies out, barriers to entry become impossible hurdles, and the vast wealth of society is concentrated in the hands of the few. Centralization itself isn't bad, rather, it's the natural consequence of the advance of industry. Supply lines, raw material sourcing, trade routes, industrialization, all become closer linked and more sprawling to raise efficiency, and as a consequence markets cease to be competing powers but few large trusts. Socialism flips this on its head by democratizing and collectivizing, keeping the benefits of centralization and spreading them out. \n\nAs for Communism vs Capitalism, sort of. Capitalism is categorized by a Mode of Production where Private Ownership and Markets are *primary*, Socialism is categorized by Public Ownership and planning being *primary,* and Communism specifically is a Mode of Production where all property has been collectivized globally, and Class therefore erased, with the State alongside it, leaving a world republic. It isn't a \"one drop\" rule or about which is more common, but which is primary. Fairness is indeed not the determining characteristic. \n\nThe thing about your hypothesis, the inflexion point on ownership, it *does* matter. If it's privately owned, the profits go to the owner, if it's publicly owned then the \"profits\" go to the whole of society, in the form of safety nets, industrialization, etc. This fundamentally cannot exist alongside Capitalism as dominant because under Capitalism, the Capitalists have control and power, and in Socialism the Working Class does. There would be no benefit for the Capitalists to allow ownership in name only, and the State in Capitalism cannot move in that direction as it is under the control of Capitalists. \n\nDoes that make sense?","removed":false,"published":"2025-02-04T19:44:00.103465Z","deleted":false,"ap_id":"https://lemmy.ml/comment/16516770","local":false,"path":"0.13415901.13416251.13417454.13417747.13418211.13418360.13423967.13424309","distinguished":false,"language_id":0},"creator":{"id":5163862,"name":"Cowbee","display_name":"Cowbee [he/they]","avatar":"https://lemmy.ml/pictrs/image/c18ce632-5fb5-4888-8226-3dc55a07acc4.jpeg","banned":false,"published":"2023-12-31T19:47:40.358778Z","actor_id":"https://lemmy.ml/u/Cowbee","bio":"Actually, this town has more than enough room for the two of us\n\nHe/him or they/them, doesn't matter too much\n\nMarxist-Leninist ☭\n\nInterested in Marxism-Leninism, but don't know where to start? 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Even if a law enforces the redistribution of profits?\n\nAlso, is it possible that even when they are publicly owned, the \"profits\" benefit more a particular part of the society than other? how do you guarantee that the one who works the most gets the most? or do you simply don't mind about that anymore?\n\n> It’s more accurate to say that the systemic issues of Capitalism sharpen as it centralizes\n\nThat's essentially what I was saying. In general, centralizing power will always sharpen any unfairness within that power.. that's why the issue is not in the centralization, but in the unfairness. Focusing in the centralization does not address the point.","removed":false,"published":"2025-02-04T19:57:47.145236Z","updated":"2025-02-04T20:27:16.907177Z","deleted":false,"ap_id":"https://lemmy.ml/comment/16517029","local":false,"path":"0.13415901.13416251.13417454.13417747.13418211.13418360.13423967.13424309.13424567","distinguished":false,"language_id":0},"creator":{"id":185880,"name":"Ferk","avatar":"https://lemmy.ml/pictrs/image/94ad0ef9-e3b5-41ae-9b16-ea0bf4a063df.png","banned":false,"published":"2021-02-15T22:16:07.313341Z","updated":"2021-08-12T14:47:26.466183Z","actor_id":"https://lemmy.ml/u/Ferk","local":false,"deleted":false,"bot_account":false,"instance_id":19},"post":{"id":20380141,"name":"Explaining capitalism to aliens","url":"https://lemmy.ml/pictrs/image/54b44aed-b126-43b1-8a98-e060ae346507.jpeg","body":"","creator_id":2507410,"community_id":505,"removed":false,"locked":false,"published":"2025-02-04T03:49:42.508758Z","updated":"2025-02-07T09:11:59.159310Z","deleted":false,"nsfw":false,"ap_id":"https://lemmy.ml/post/25583380","local":false,"language_id":0,"featured_community":false,"featured_local":false,"url_content_type":"image/jpeg","alt_text":""},"community":{"id":505,"name":"comics","title":"Comics","description":"This is a community for everything comics related! 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The purpose of ownership *is* the profit, if you run an entity publicly like, say, USPS, profit no longer becomes the purpose. The inverse is true, administrators would likely get more money in Socialism, or labor vouchers in early Communism, than regular workers. Socialism isn't about equal pay, nor is Communism. As for guaranteeing, that's not really important. You can pay more for more skilled jobs, or pay the same for fewer hours for dangerous jobs. Look at how Socialist societies exist currently. \n\nIf you want to learn more, I have a Marxism-Leninism reading list linked on my profile. The first section is all you really need to get an understanding of terms and basics. 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The purpose of ownership is the profit\n\nOk, so if it's only a purpose and not part of the definition, then it is possible to have ownership without profit.\n\nI'd argue, the only reason why the purpose of ownership is profit is because it is profitable to have ownership, but having ownership does not necessarily imply you get all the profit.\n\nFrom this it follows that if having ownership were to be no longer profitable (or say.. still profitable but less than being a worker), then it would be possible to have private ownership (capitalism) where profit is not the purpose of having ownership.\n\n> Socialism isn’t about equal pay, nor is Communism. As for guaranteeing, that’s not really important. You can pay more for more skilled jobs, or pay the same for fewer hours for dangerous jobs. Look at how Socialist societies exist currently.\n\nBut who guarantees that you \"pay more for more skilled jobs\" or \"pay the same for fewer hours for dangerous jobs\"? And specifically, in communism, not in socialism. Let's not argue on whether socialist societies running in social democratic capitalistic countries can be considered to be from one side or the other. \"Common ownership\" is not the same as \"collective ownership\", and it can come with its very own set of unfair practices.\n\nAlso, my question was specifically about the redistribution of the profit. How do you guarantee that the profit goes to the one who works the hardest and not to the one who happens to be in a circumstance that places them in a position where they can reap the most rewards?","removed":false,"published":"2025-02-04T20:14:47.465034Z","updated":"2025-02-04T20:31:53.317674Z","deleted":false,"ap_id":"https://lemmy.ml/comment/16517358","local":false,"path":"0.13415901.13416251.13417454.13417747.13418211.13418360.13423967.13424309.13424567.13424673.13424904","distinguished":false,"language_id":0},"creator":{"id":185880,"name":"Ferk","avatar":"https://lemmy.ml/pictrs/image/94ad0ef9-e3b5-41ae-9b16-ea0bf4a063df.png","banned":false,"published":"2021-02-15T22:16:07.313341Z","updated":"2021-08-12T14:47:26.466183Z","actor_id":"https://lemmy.ml/u/Ferk","local":false,"deleted":false,"bot_account":false,"instance_id":19},"post":{"id":20380141,"name":"Explaining capitalism to aliens","url":"https://lemmy.ml/pictrs/image/54b44aed-b126-43b1-8a98-e060ae346507.jpeg","body":"","creator_id":2507410,"community_id":505,"removed":false,"locked":false,"published":"2025-02-04T03:49:42.508758Z","updated":"2025-02-07T09:11:59.159310Z","deleted":false,"nsfw":false,"ap_id":"https://lemmy.ml/post/25583380","local":false,"language_id":0,"featured_community":false,"featured_local":false,"url_content_type":"image/jpeg","alt_text":""},"community":{"id":505,"name":"comics","title":"Comics","description":"This is a community for everything comics related! 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The altruism refers to the altruism of those with enough resources to become successful in capitalist states.","removed":false,"published":"2025-02-04T21:43:28.681983Z","deleted":false,"ap_id":"https://lemmy.world/comment/14887432","local":false,"path":"0.13415901.13416251.13417454.13417747.13418211.13426301.13426699","distinguished":false,"language_id":0},"creator":{"id":4580792,"name":"nifty","display_name":"nifty","avatar":"https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/15f417de-b482-4f34-a0bc-98539c4b42b5.jpeg","banned":false,"published":"2023-12-07T20:00:42.737963Z","actor_id":"https://lemmy.world/u/nifty","bio":"libera te tutemet ex machina, and shitpost~~","local":false,"banner":"https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/b11e8f36-d1d8-4c42-ae55-a856e1ce2a9f.jpeg","deleted":false,"bot_account":false,"instance_id":2},"post":{"id":20380141,"name":"Explaining capitalism to aliens","url":"https://lemmy.ml/pictrs/image/54b44aed-b126-43b1-8a98-e060ae346507.jpeg","body":"","creator_id":2507410,"community_id":505,"removed":false,"locked":false,"published":"2025-02-04T03:49:42.508758Z","updated":"2025-02-07T09:11:59.159310Z","deleted":false,"nsfw":false,"ap_id":"https://lemmy.ml/post/25583380","local":false,"language_id":0,"featured_community":false,"featured_local":false,"url_content_type":"image/jpeg","alt_text":""},"community":{"id":505,"name":"comics","title":"Comics","description":"This is a community for everything comics related! 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Like, genuinely, you go around provoking Marxists then complain about a mysterious \"downvote brigade.\" If you play online games, you're \"feeding.\"\n\nYour point about being anti-immigration was *specifically* about nationalist conceptions of \"cultural erosion\" and a \"shift in values.\" This is pure xenophobia, plain and simple. There isn't anything to address here, this is what conservatives say all the time. You called these immigrants \"dangerous to democracy\" due to having \"cultural differences.\" It's *painfully* clear in its xenophobia. \n\nSecond, Imperialism. It is a *fact* that over time, corporations monopolize and spread internationally, to seek further markets, and in doing so export industrial Capital as a way to pay cheaper labor costs and expropriate super-profits. This process results in intentional under-development of countries to keep them in line, including performing coups and regime change to keep the wheels turning. The US has done this all over the world, especially in Latin America and the Middle East. You can listen to *[Blowback](https://blowback.show/)* if you want to hear the evil ways the US has slaughtered and invaded for profit, or read Michael Hudson's *[Super-Imperialism](https://michael-hudson.com/2021/10/3rd-edition-super-imperialism/)* if you prefer books. Blaming, say, the Iraqis for the US murdering 1 million of them is monstrous behavior. \n\nThe idea that Marxism is being pushed by foreign countries to destabilize western democracies is laughable. Marxism has been demonized throughout the West for centuries, this conspiracy doesn't exist. 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