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>without inciting a mass genocide The Myanmar government incited a mass genocide, Facebook was just one of the communication mediums they used. >capitalism sh

>without inciting a mass genocide The Myanmar government incited a mass genocide, Facebook was just one of the communication mediums they used. >capitalism should be abolished Pretty rich saying this while commenting on Myanmar. Myanmar did abolish capitalism, that's why they have a communist government, and nobody has the power to stand up to the government because no capitalism == no private property. Abolishing capitalism is essentially saying "only people in the government are allowed to own property", and on top of that constructing a violent state apparatus to destroy anyone who dares to acquire property of their own. You can't abolish capitalism without also having groups of armed men arresting or killing anyone who tries to open a shop, because violently intervening is the only way to stop two willing parties from trading with each other. And this is not exaggeration, it's literally what happened in China and Russia after the communist revolutions.

rakoo 3y ago
> The Myanmar government incited a mass genocide, Facebook was just one of the communication mediums they used. It's not about who did the genocide, it's about what was the role of Facebook in the genocide > Abolishing capitalism is essentially saying "only people in the government are allowed to own property" As you said before, abolishing capitalism means abolishing private property. If the government has property, capitalism wasn't abolished; in fact, as what happened in USSR and China, capitalism wasn't abolished, it was only enabled for a different subset of the population. > and on top of that constructing a violent state apparatus to destroy anyone who dares to acquire property of their own. Surely you know about communist and socialist ideology and don't imply that a state is still necessary
- g-b-r 3y ago
  Abolishing capitalism does NOT mean abolishing private property!!! Private property existed for thousand of years before capitalism, just as trade and an economy!!! Capitalism is only the belief (or supposed belief) that if everyone does everything he can to earn as much as possible, things will go in the best possible way!! If you take out capitalism you get simply an economy with less absurd axioms, NOT COMMUNISM!!!
g-b-r 3y ago
> The Myanmar government incited a mass genocide, Facebook was just one of the communication mediums they used. There's a very good chance that it could not have happened without Facebook
- jowea 3y ago
  I'm not sure about that, Facebook was used because that's where people were, but for the example Rwanda, they used the radio. But it seems Facebook actually was the introduction to mass communications for a lot of people according to the articles, so yes, very good chance in this case.

rakoo 3y ago

> The Myanmar government incited a mass genocide, Facebook was just one of the communication mediums they used. It's not about who did the genocide, it's about what was the role of Facebook in the genocide > Abolishing capitalism is essentially saying "only people in the government are allowed to own property" As you said before, abolishing capitalism means abolishing private property. If the government has property, capitalism wasn't abolished; in fact, as what happened in USSR and China, capitalism wasn't abolished, it was only enabled for a different subset of the population. > and on top of that constructing a violent state apparatus to destroy anyone who dares to acquire property of their own. Surely you know about communist and socialist ideology and don't imply that a state is still necessary

g-b-r 3y ago
Abolishing capitalism does NOT mean abolishing private property!!! Private property existed for thousand of years before capitalism, just as trade and an economy!!! Capitalism is only the belief (or supposed belief) that if everyone does everything he can to earn as much as possible, things will go in the best possible way!! If you take out capitalism you get simply an economy with less absurd axioms, NOT COMMUNISM!!!

g-b-r 3y ago

> The Myanmar government incited a mass genocide, Facebook was just one of the communication mediums they used. There's a very good chance that it could not have happened without Facebook

jowea 3y ago
I'm not sure about that, Facebook was used because that's where people were, but for the example Rwanda, they used the radio. But it seems Facebook actually was the introduction to mass communications for a lot of people according to the articles, so yes, very good chance in this case.