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Ideas exist between those two extremes. You really don't become a communist by pointing out issues with unconstrained capitalism.
by viraptor 1y ago
Ideas exist between those two extremes. You really don't become a communist by pointing out issues with unconstrained capitalism.
- colechristensen 1y agoNo, I'm insulting the edgelord response of "we're aktually an olIGarChY!!!!11!" which adds nothing.
- cartoonworld 1y agoThe preferred response is to downvote and move on. Please don't post shallow dismissals, especially of other people's work. A good critical comment teaches us something.
- BirAdam 1y agoSo, I was quite specific. The USA isn’t capitalist, it’s financialist. The dollar is a financial product created via debt issuance. The USA is semi-fascist as most people in prison aren’t given a trial, there’s a prison industrial complex, police are typically immune from prosecution, and there’s a massive surveillance apparatus that violates US law and human rights. This is wrapped in “patriotism” which is in keeping with fascist modes of propaganda, and the US corporate/state merger is a clear instance of the fascist model. The US is an oligarchy, and not a republic. No matter who is elected the wars continue, the drug war continues, poverty increases, mass incarceration continues, and so on. A republic is the “thing of the people”. The people of the USA have very little power over federal policy. The observed function is that a handful of wealthy oligarchs get what they want pretty much every time.