• pivot_root@lemmy.world
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    7 months ago

    Communism would work if it weren’t for people trying to co-opt it for power

    As long as there exists a way to gain power over others, someone will do it. That’s just the reality of our nature, unfortunately.

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        7 months ago

        This goes into a fight over philosophy of human nature. However, since the days of the Roman republic over 2000 years ago where capitalism wasn’t even a concept, people have used political systems to consolidate and gain power over others. It is undoubtabele that there will be people who try to co-opt the system for their personal gain

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          7 months ago

          Depends on Mode of Production. Roman society was still a class driven society.

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          That’s just human nature unfortunately. We like to help one another and hate to see another human being suffering because we know that could be us. But capitalism has conditioned and limited us out of our human nature to help one another, because either there is no profit in helping the poor or destitute, or we lack the means to help.

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            7 months ago

            That’s such a wide eyed idealistic view of the world. Let’s all come together and sing kumbaya.

            All people throughout history have always tried to just help each other out, right?

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              Depends on the dominant Mode of Production, actually. People are shaped by their environment.