• o1011o@lemmy.world
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    25 days ago

    Do you understand the difference between capitalism and commerce? Using money for trade isn’t what makes capitalism what it is. Capitalism is, from wikipedia, “An economic system in which the means of production and distribution are privately or corporately owned and development occurs through the accumulation and reinvestment of profits gained in a free market” Capitalism means that I can own something I have nothing to do with and you have to pay me for the privilege of using it. When that thing is housing or food or medicine then I own you unless you want to die.

    Capitalism means taking from the worker and giving to the ‘owner’. The problem is that work is real and ownership is a made up concept.

    The more you learn about it the more you’ll understand how evil it is, I promise.

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      25 days ago

      I think your whole first paragraph is just posturing, maybe i did speak incorrectly, i dont care.

      In your economic system, if I make a machine that makes something, and sell it to a guy, what happens to that machine if what it makes is important or valuable?

      • Cowbee [he/they]@lemmy.ml
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        25 days ago

        How are you making your machine? Does it literally create something from nothing? Why would what it creates have any value if it can be infinitely easily produced, even if important? If it obeys the laws of physics, why would you be able to compete with large, mass scale industry as a single person?

        Your question largely doesn’t make any sense.

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            24 days ago

            Please elaborate on what you mean, your thought experiment made no sense. And yes, I’m a Communist, correct.

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                24 days ago

                Seems more like a dodge for you to avoid making an argument, but you do you. Don’t know what you mean by claiming I’m not a Communist, either, who counts as a Communist in your eyes?

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                    24 days ago

                    Considering Communism as a Mode of Production refers to a relatively far-future, fully publicly owned global economy, humanity hasn’t reached Communism and thus by your definition nobody has ever been a Communist. This, of course, isn’t true, a Communist is someone who generally follows Communist ideology and wishes to bring about Communism.

                    This is just a non-sequitor no true Scotsman, and seems to be deflection.