• Steeve@lemmy.ca
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    1 year ago

    I see a lot of communism good/capitalism bad meme content in lemmy.ml in general. Now I’m really not against communism and I absolutely see the negative effects of western society’s brand of unregulated late stage capitalism, but political meme content in general is just entirely devoid of all nuance to the point where people are seriously dropping silly statements like “capitalism is the sole contributor to climate change”, as if if you could turn of capitalism climate change would just stop lol. It’s straight up propaganda.

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      That and conveniently ignoring any negatives involving China/Russia.

      There are a few users on Lemmy.ml who I see all over the place. Half their posts will just be funny “lol capitalism sucks, amirite?” memes and the other half will be “Look at how China is ushering the world into a golden age of social and economic progress” or “When will the west acknowledge Ukraine’s Nazi problem?”

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        Agreed, seems like “capitalism” has become analogous with “greed”, which I mean, they sort of go hand in hand, but that doesn’t mean greed doesn’t exist without capitalism.

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          it’s kind of like how USSR/Russia was seen bad because of communism, and now since 1991 they are not communist so they are the good guys.

          It is the same freaking country, they just embraced fascism over communism in the last 3 decades.

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          I think people also conflate social democracy with socialism, and/or communism.

          And communism with Stalins dictatorship (and Xi etc etc).

          The ideas behind the ideologies are all interesting but only democracy have proven “not horribly killing a large part of the population and a large part of the neighbour population” like all the time

          So for me anyways, it’s full democracy, then tack on socialism (for example).

          I think the discussion about democracy is also largely non present, I mean how fun is it if other people just decide what they want and you can like object every X Years?

          We got democracy 0.1 let’s move forward!