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noufsmith | 1 months ago (raw) | export | reply | flag +3 
 For those of you who are proud to be communist, you should love the current system.

Few understand this.
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M. W | 1 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 I'm sure you and most plebs here know this but I wanted to chime in for posterity. 

I would be cautious in even labeling it communism, because it can falsley suggest we have an alternative. We really don't. It may suggest that the opposing party will behave differently. It doesn't and it never has.

We have a 2 party system that is corrupt to the bone. All it does is loot and opress its citizens regardless of the party in power.

The 2 parties appear at odds at first glance, but in reality, both parties have have ruined lives as reliably and comprably in the past 50 years.

Cheesy as it may sound, the apparent difference between the 2 parties is a scam. The illusion of choice is real.
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noufsmith | 1 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 Exactly. What we call capitalism and blame for inequalities is crony capitalism, ie socialism.

Socialism = socialism
Capitalism (the current version) = socialism 🤝