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 (DIR) Post #AdPBYNpxErPyVmtpHk by Radical_EgoCom@mastodon.social
       2023-12-31T13:00:58Z
       
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       Capitalism allows the concentration of wealth in the hands of a few, i.e. Capitalists', who own the means of production and generate their wealth by extracting surplus value from the labor of workers, i.e. exploitation. The profit margin is achieved through paying workers less than the value of what they produce. This results in an inherent exploitation of labor and contributes to the accumulation of wealth among capitalists, which leads to poverty and destitution among the workers.
       
 (DIR) Post #AdPBYOgm4TfX9bc0cC by jredlund@social.linux.pizza
       2023-12-31T17:21:31Z
       
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       @Radical_EgoCom That is basic Marxism. We have had that analysis since the 19th century. The problem is what to do instead. So far, communism has led to authoritarian and totalitarian governments. Liberalism, which embraces capitalism but tries to regulate its worst tendencies, annoys capitalists who don't like being regulated and so they undermine it. Now, we seem to be in a kind of neo-feudalism in which fiefdoms arise around individual oligarchs and woe to those who don't work for them.
       
 (DIR) Post #AdPBYPcYbdtE2oe9gG by Radical_EgoCom@mastodon.social
       2023-12-31T17:32:21Z
       
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       @jredlund What led to Authoritarianism wasn't Communism, per se, but the use of the state and hierarchy to achieve Communism, which inevitably leads to Authoritarianism. I believe the Anarchist-Communist approach, that being initiating a planned and structured immediate transition to Communism after the abolishion of the state and capitalism instead making the mistake  of keeping those institutions around like the Soviet Union and other countries did, will work.
       
 (DIR) Post #AdPBYQGyBODS49YQfg by divVerent@blob.cat
       2024-01-01T14:51:55.204113Z
       
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       @Radical_EgoCom @jredlund I am not that optimistic about humanity. Without regulations being in place by "some form of governing body" (which needs not be of this world), any anarchic system will be exploited by those who seek gain and devolve into authoritarianism.If we could get rid of the evil people first, it could work, though... but the only way to achieve that appears to be described in Revelations, and even that turns into a form of authoritarianism.There have been mostly anarchist societies before, but they all required some force to unite them - one especially open example was the Quakers in their early history, which drew from a common set of values without exercise of force. As we know today, this was of course doomed as well.
       
 (DIR) Post #AdPBZoPRvc6BDMBPpQ by gumpfloyd@mastodon.social
       2023-12-31T21:05:28Z
       
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