• @OurToothbrush@lemmy.ml
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      It is a historical fact that communist countries typically go through one last famine on their way to ending periodic famines in the country forever, and sometimes they’re worse than normal due to the kinks being ironed out and social unrest.

      • How is that not a valid critique? I despise Apple as a company. As a result I refuse to purchase any of their products or use any of their services. To this day I have never purchased a single Apple product. I do this because I have conviction and standards.

        1st world communists like to denigrate capitalism, yet live comfortable lives because of it. That shows zero conviction or standards.

    • @lolcatnip@reddthat.com
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      72 years ago

      If any bad thing that happens under a nominally communist system is the fault of communism, then any bad thing that happens in a nominally capitalist system must be the fault of capitalism, right? Capitalism has an awful lot of slavery, genocide, apartheid, coloialism, wars of choice, and other evils to answer for, then.

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        22 years ago

        Yes. Concentration of power is bad no matter the economic system.

      • All typed on a device and shared over a network designed and facilitated by capitalism.

        It would be a whole lot easier for me to take you seriously if you actually lived what you preach.

        • @abbotsbury@lemmy.world
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          What a convenient way for you to deflect any opinion you disagree with, “you criticize society yet you participate in it”

        • @thawed_caveman@lemmy.world
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          This is not a valid argument ecause everything surrounding us is designed and facilitated by capitalism, and certainly all our electronics, there’s no such thing as computers independent from capitalism. There weren’t even in the soviet union. So it’s not possible for this anon to actually live what they preach unless they went full anarcho-primitivism.

          Not that it would matter anyway, because you’re allowed to criticize a system that you participate in.