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Capitalism

countdown to sailor or '89 either asking you to either show me where COMMUNISM worked or just a one liner about "yeah, because we'd all rather be hanging with Stalin"
 
ImTheCaptain said:
countdown to sailor or '89 either asking you to either show me where COMMUNISM worked or just a one liner about "yeah, because we'd all rather be hanging with Stalin"
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Communism didn't work, ppl forget that
 
Communism doesn't work because it means equality with rubes, same as the failed notion of jury by your peers.
 
TuffaloDeac10 said:
Would you flesh this out? I don't think "capitalism is the choice of societies with high levels of racial tension/oppression" is really a point against socialism.
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How about accelerationism? Being part robot would be p sweet
 
Basically every capitalist society has significant pieces of socialism.

Unfettered, unregulated capitalism is a disaster. All you have to do is go to US/Mexico border towns or third world countries to see what happens when regulations don't exist.
 
sailordeac said:
before continuing please define socialism and capitalism, thanks
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I generally think along the lines Polanyi laid out.

Capitalism: the self-regulating market as the basis of society

Socialism: "the tendency inherent in an industrial civilization to transcend the self-regulating market by consciously subordinating it to a democratic society. It is the solution natural to the industrial workers who see no reason why production should not be regulated directly and why markets should be more than a useful but subordinate trait in a free society."
 
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