>Communism (per Marx) describes a stateless society. A society without a state cannot be a democracy. Communism is antidemocratic per definition. False, democr

>Communism (per Marx) describes a stateless society. A society without a state cannot be a democracy. Communism is antidemocratic per definition. False, democracy does not require a state. >Capitalism offers various means to private entities to steer democratic vote. The two are intertwined just like all other political and economic systems. No capitalism only means this: an economic system where private individuals or corporations own and control the production and distribution of goods and services. You can have a capitalism under a dictatorship OR a democracy. >Perhaps. I don't know what your bubble currently considers to be liberal politics. I still don't see why you consider pronoun usage to be such a significant issue. Bro. Liberalism nowdays means politically correct pronoun usage. If you don't know this, you're living in a bubble. Just google liberal and pronoun and you get articles like this: https://amac.us/newsline/society/pronouns-gender-and-the-lefts-malicious-dissembling-of-culture/ https://amac.us/newsline/society/pronouns-gender-and-the-lef... I think this caught the old liberals of the 2000-2010s off guard. In that time liberalism meant something else. Nowadays those people are moderate. But there's a good number of people on HN who are still in that bubble.