If you support capitalism as the economic mode of production you are fine with putting profit over people and it’s really that fucking simple and you can see it everywhere you look. If you are against the slide into fascism, global warming, etc etc you must oppose a system that only seeks profit - ThreadSky

nerdjpg.com • 11 days ago

If you support capitalism as the economic mode of production you are fine with putting profit over people and it’s really that fucking simple and you can see it everywhere you look. If you are against the slide into fascism, global warming, etc etc you must oppose a system that only seeks profit

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leftymathprof.bsky.social•10 days ago

Here is the leaflet that I'll try to hand out at the Feb 17 rally.

https://leftymathprof.wordpress.com/endcap/#top

absurdreality.bsky.social•10 days ago

infinite growth for the sake of it is impossible in our world with finite resources, anyone that advocates for capitalism is actively rooting for a mass extinction event, it's a death cult

g.litch.art•10 days ago

I find it wild that one of most globally successful TV shows of all time from the US constantly lampooned unbridled capitalism for 30 years, and yet the dominant opinion is "well the Communists were worse" as if there's only some binary choice between two cartoon extremes

nerdjpg.com•11 days ago

You cannot force a system oriented around profit accumulation to be just. That doesn’t make sense. There is no justification for a small percent of people being owners that accumulate wealth and everyone else being forced to labor for their benefit. None.

artstardust.bsky.social•11 days ago

Profit itself is worse theft than anyone in prison today for petty theft has ever stolen

willowminder.bsky.social•11 days ago

You can say one, and only one, positive thing about capitalism: it was better than feudalism.

But there is a reason that it evolved on earth when human chattel slavery was common.

depresseddeveloper.bsky.social•10 days ago

Was it though? Lords were required to look after their serfs. There is also evidence people worked less even with brief periods of hard work like a harvesting season.

willowminder.bsky.social•10 days ago

A good way to look at it. But wealth was much more static and the rights of men were restricted.

I am applying a societal view but for many, society barely existed outside the village.

manuclearbomb.bsky.social•10 days ago

To maybe add to Willow’s post: the one good thing about capitalism is that it developed our productive forces to the point that we can now produce enough food, clothing, and shelter to take care of everyone on this planet. But that’s it

skirne.bsky.social•10 days ago

We can produce enough to provide for everyone but since capitalism demands artificial scarcity to inflate profit, what's the functional difference between a failure to produce enough and the refusal to fairly distribute what's produced?

manuclearbomb.bsky.social•10 days ago

You’re not going to find many arguments from me on this

willowminder.bsky.social•10 days ago

Yeah, turns out that a lot of the promises of capitalism were soon rendered illusory. Or maybe they were never real at all.

rizzobrian.bsky.social•11 days ago

My opinion on how people perceive capitalism as a good thing is the mythos of capitalism is that you work hard you gain wealth. Where the actuality of capitalism is have more than others at all costs.

ryanboyd.bsky.social•11 days ago

But what if Stalin takes my funko pops

bolshevikmilf.bsky.social•11 days ago

as climate stalin my one mass seizure of personal property would be of funko pops

nerdjpg.com•11 days ago

Oh no

bolshevikmilf.bsky.social•11 days ago

your funko pop belongs to the people now comrade ahhhhh

awebde.ch•11 days ago

i don't thing artisanal 3d printed funko pops made without exploitation would be a problem

adhdgobl.in•11 days ago

If a communist revolutionary promised to throw everyone who has ever owned a Funko Pop into prison after the revolution, I would immediately become the tankiest motherfucker in history.

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