Nando161<p>"@historickomodo submission: “Salvador Allende didn’t die for this shit.”</p><p>For newbies playing along at home, this <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/meme" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>meme</span></a> circulates all over the place on <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/liberal" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>liberal</span></a> pages, and it’s filled with <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/contradictory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>contradictory</span></a> pieces of <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ideology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ideology</span></a>. Firstly, one can’t really be a <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/capitalist" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>capitalist</span></a> and a <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/socialist" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>socialist</span></a> at the same time – if you support capitalist <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ownership" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ownership</span></a> over the means of <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/production" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>production</span></a>, then you support capitalism; if you support <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/democratic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>democratic</span></a> ownership over the means of production, where people have a say in the <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/institutions" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>institutions</span></a> and <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/activities" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>activities</span></a> they contribute to, then you support socialism. I don’t know how to make it more succinct than that. Also, <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/communism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>communism</span></a> is the post-scarcity natural conclusion of socialism, a <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/stateless" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>stateless</span></a>/ <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/moneyless" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>moneyless</span></a>/ <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/classless" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>classless</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/society" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>society</span></a> where <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/socially" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>socially</span></a>-operated <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/property" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>property</span></a> is held in common and <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/people" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>people</span></a> “contribute according to their <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/abilities" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>abilities</span></a> and receive according to their <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/needs" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>needs</span></a>”; <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/statelessness" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>statelessness</span></a> is a <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/fundamental" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>fundamental</span></a> aspect of the ideology, ergo a <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/totalitarian" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>totalitarian</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/government" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>government</span></a> “forcing everybody to be exactly equal” is not communism. </p><p>Secondly, channeling government power to curb capitalism’s self-destructive excesses is merely Keynesian <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/welfare" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>welfare</span></a> capitalism or Scandinavian social democracy, both of which try to use the state to mitigate structural tension within the parameters of the system (and all-too-often to wither away class consciousness and pushes for actual socialist change). </p><p>Thirdly and lastly, “the <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/economy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>economy</span></a> and society being run democratically to meet <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/human" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>human</span></a> needs rather than <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/profit" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>profit</span></a> for a <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/greedy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>greedy</span></a> few” is literally socialism. Capitalism by definition will always have a tiny class of owners pulling the <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/economic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>economic</span></a> and <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/political" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>political</span></a> strings; as long as they own the means of production and accrue profit off the backs of the <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/laboring" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>laboring</span></a> class, they will always, always have disproportionate power in society. Such is the <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/nature" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>nature</span></a> of class relations – throughout history, laboring classes have produced the things society needs while ruling classes have sat and accrued the most <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/wealth" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>wealth</span></a>. If labor produces all, why not have a society democratically run by <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/laborers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>laborers</span></a>?"</p><p><a href="https://www.tumblr.com/left-reminders/719052387152740352/softboypassing-leftist-daily-reminders?source=share" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">tumblr.com/left-reminders/7190</span><span class="invisible">52387152740352/softboypassing-leftist-daily-reminders?source=share</span></a></p>