EnnuinerDog

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Cake day: July 18th, 2023

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  • EnnuinerDogtoMemesHow i feel on Lemmy
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    1 year ago

    How dare teenagers not become Neoliberals while growing up in a late capitalist hellscape where climate change can’t be taken seriously because it isn’t a profitable problem to solve.


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    1 year ago

    Neither of those countries ever claimed to have a communist mode of production. Being led by a Communist Party and having a communist economic system are two different things. The USSR never claimed to have achieved communism, they achieved socialism (a transitionary phase between capitalism and communism) according to Marxist-Leninist theory.

    This is a quote from Engels describing such a transitionary system:

    What we have to deal with here is a communist society, not as it has developed on its own foundations, but, on the contrary, just as it emerges from capitalist society; which is thus in every respect, economically, morally, and intellectually, still stamped with the birthmarks of the old society from whose womb it emerges.

    If an advanced capitalist country in the imperial Core, today, attempted a similar transition, it would be nothing like these other examples because our material conditions are entirely different (Marx didn’t expect communism to be tried within individual countries in isolation or within undeveloped countries). Marx didn’t provide a blueprint for transitioning to communism because what that looks like is different in every country and material situation etc.





  • EnnuinerDogtoMemesThe decentralized web is growing
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    1 year ago

    I remember Voat and numerous other attempts to abandon Reddit.

    I really hope that this one sticks but it needs to be very robust (in terms of moderation, server capacity, user friendliness etc) if it is going to handle a large influx of users without breaking down.