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He appears to confuse socialism with communism.

• throwaway838112 1y ago
  Unsurprising
  • autop0ietic 1y ago
    Do you really think Peter Thiel is so poorly read that he doesn't understand the difference between socialism and communism? I actually think pointing this out is a tell of how unread a person is on the subject actually. I can't even count how many times I have read this statement online in my life. In everyday use though outside a Marxist philosophy circle, socialism is used as a blanket term for collectivism of all sorts and communism is the pejorative word for the same thing.
    • estimator7292 1y ago
      Most Americans cannot correctly distinguish between socialism, communisim, capitalism, and authoritarianism.
    • throwaway838112 1y ago
      > Do you really think Peter Thiel is so poorly read that he doesn't understand the difference between socialism and communism? That's not what I wrote and not what parent poster wrote.
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• general1465 1y ago
  That's for some reason a thing for a lot of Americans. For them there is no distinction between Social Democracy (As in Europe today) Socialism (As in Eastern Block 1945~1989) and Communism (Target which Socialist governments in Eastern Europe were aiming for) It is actually a paradox that communism or in modern words post scarcity society has high probability of being built through AGI, because when you drop 90%+ population out of possibility to be employed due to intelligence lower than chip running AGI, then you either need to give them money as UBI or make basic services free as was main aim of communism.