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These titles don't exactly sound communist to me... It's a long way from "Flat Tax Maybe Not Good" to "Proletariat, Seize the Means of Production Now!" By you

by pavlov 2y ago

These titles don't exactly sound communist to me... It's a long way from "Flat Tax Maybe Not Good" to "Proletariat, Seize the Means of Production Now!" By your logic, Eisenhower's America was communist because income tax was much more progressive than today.

easytiger 2y ago
> These titles don't exactly sound communist to me... Then we have a very different understanding. And yes the post war heist that destroyed long term economic common sense all over the western world turned into a permanent ongoing shakedown
Terr_ 2y ago
> It's a long way from "Flat Tax Maybe Not Good" to "Proletariat, Seize the Means of Production Now!" And if, just for the sake of argument, we suppose those were equivalent... Then the huge popular support for (1) means those who decry (2) are actually a weirdly out-of-touch political minority with delusions of being far bigger than they are.