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by licebmi_at
3710 days ago
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How is it propaganda if all that you said it's true? With all your fear mongering ideas of communism, you can't blame them for capitalism own weakness.
Karl Marx[1] predicted this and that's why he postulated that capitalism would prey on itself. Everyone who tried to warn about this weakness and every call to fix this (just like your comment) was dismissed as communist and enemy of the western world.
Communist might be a bad idea, but not everything should be treated "vicious propaganda". [1]: Born in Prussia, part of the Western world AFAIK. |
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That's a good question as it raises a very important point, namely, the weakness of capitalism. But what I think is this weakness of capitalism can and must be tackled from within the capitalism. Sadly, at this moment, at least in the US we are not seeing any serious efforts being done in this direction.
>>With all your fear mongering ideas of communism...
Time and again, communism and Marxism have demonstrated how vicious these ideas are: e.g. the mass killings and suffering of people in China, Russia. See these [1], [2].
The fear is not baseless, whereas the "free market economy based democracy" has been seen to be the best societal structure ever existed. I don't mean it can't be made better but that improvement can certainly not be brought by turning to Marxism [3].
>>but not everything should be treated "vicious propaganda"
I agree with you to some extent here as not everything should be treated "vicious propaganda". (That's why I upvoted it.)
But it can be seen clearly that communists and Marxists are trying to take advantage of such things by creating "propaganda" items like 99% vs 1%; and trying to sway the public opinion in their favor. This is vicious because they are trying to portrait everyone within the top 1% to be vicious while demanding "free rides" (in the Marxist style) for everyone within the 99%, whereas we can see that only some people at the extreme top are doing somethings wrong. And thus with such propaganda these people are trying to kill the very "free market economy based democracy" itself.
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gulag [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tiananmen_Square_protests_of_1... [3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Critique_of_Marxism