• NutWrench@lemmy.ml
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    16 hours ago

    It’s about understanding the difference between the dictionary definitions of “communism” and “capitalism” and how they are actually practiced in the real life.

    One of them is a system where the super rich hoard all the wealth and use the news media they own to keep the poor and middle classes fighting with each other while they, the rich, run off with all the f*cking money.

    And the other one is a system where the super rich hoard all the wealth and use the news media they own to keep the poor and middle classes fighting with each other while they, the rich, run off with all the f*cking money.

    “But wait a minute,” you ask. “Aren’t those the same thing” Yeah. Congratulations. You GOT it.

    • Cowbee [he/they]@lemmy.ml
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      10 hours ago

      This is nonsense. It’s neither historically accurate nor logically accurate, in the USSR for example wealth disparity was dramatically minimized. Please, open a book sometime.