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by wizzwizz4 1898 days ago
Many socialist-adjacent philosophies are anticapitalist. Hence, the irony.

Yes, yes, I know that it's not hypocrisy for anticapitalists to use money. I also know that not all socialists are anticapitalist. Still ironic.
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false-mirror 1898 days ago
A not-anti-capitalist socialist is not a socialist. TLDR: Capitalism is when production is determined by people holding capital. Socialism is when production is determined by the members of society. So the question being, should an economy be democratic or run by the rich.So long as socialists workers work democratically, there is no hypocrisy in earning money.
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wizzwizz4 1898 days ago
Even the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Market_socialism says you're right. Huh. TIL.
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jessaustin 1898 days ago
Some people seem to conflate capitalism with free enterprise. A deeper study would reveal them to be near opposites.
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tshaddox 1898 days ago
I bet they subsist on food that was produced via capitalist enterprise too. Not ironic.
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