• Yliaster@lemmy.world
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    16 days ago

    Communism and socialism isn’t the silver bullet everyone makes it out to be, as in practice it has always led to totalitarian (or at least highly authoritarian) regimes, which is pretty disgusting.

    Capitalism is gross too, but I don’t think a realistic and appropriate solution exists.

    There’s anarchism which I most approve of, but I’ll probably be gray before any country ever seriously even considers moving in such a direction.

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      16 days ago

      Is it an automated answer ? Because capitalism is leading to fascist right now. And 10k élite will live in Paradise when will be enslaved by robots. I dunno, but look like can’t be worst.

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        16 days ago

        Do you think it is, or are you just trying to use that to smear me? Pass it through zerogpt or some ai detector instead of randomly going “AI”.

        I never said capitalism is good.

        Zero comprehension.

        Communism has lead to fascism too. Doesn’t mean communism is any better, smartass.

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          No I think you are repeating year of propaganda. Sorry if you felt compared to ai. I redpiled by propaganda for years was like that too, I see things in grey now. I dunno for communism, but starting with some kind of cooperative looks a great start. And you grouped socialisme with communisme then used defaults of communisme to discredit both, I dunno if you noticed.

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            16 days ago

            You can have an anarchist cooperative, most anarchists don’t like how communism lends itself to strong man politics and cults of personality.

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              I don’t know anarchism well enough. I fear that anachisme lead to individualisme too, like capitalisme. Which will lead to an eroding sens of the others. Because we are a social specie, and we need communities. I think housing blocs should be centrally managed like copropriety in Europe, where every owner have a say and a vote. And everybody working in a country for a country should have a home no but.

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                16 days ago

                Anarchism can absolutely extend such housing rights.

                Anarchists are staunchly against capitalism. It’s built on community practice. The difference between anarchism and communism is that anarchists actively reject hierarchy.

                Your suggestions of centralized control are concerning.

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                  15 days ago

                  By centralized control I mean by all owner of the building, (if you are 1 owner you do as you which) I join one the idea that there are practicals advantages to communale housings, one roof, smaller surface since you stack. And proximitie commerces. I would love to be able to bike too.

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            16 days ago

            “Propaganda”.

            I don’t interact with “pill” content.

            you grouped socialisme with communisme then used defaults of communisme to discredit both, I dunno if you noticed.

            Yes, because socialism is supposed to be the bridge to communism. Have you read communist theory?

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              15 days ago

              So why reject a good idea, i mean part of socialisme, like UBI ( with AI there is pressure for this), healthcare (mostly done for civilized countries). Nope I didn’t read any of these, I mostly chat to people, some time got friction and revise my point of view. I usually research and discover thing by parts. I can’t take the time (in the way it is big effort to start this kind of activity), I got ADHD. So I concentrate my energy of concentration on work and familly. I got diagnosed few year ago so I am adapting. For politic let’s say I didn’t had tile, life is turbulent. So If you want to take time to explain, I am always curious of things.

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                Because I don’t see it as a good idea.

                Socialism is meant to be a developmental stage to prepare the conditions to switch to communism. Communism leads to totalitarian regimes, which is amongst the worst outcomes in my view. These states are highly authoritarian and controlling, and it’s a direct attack on individual liberty, freedom of speech, and the ability to hold people in power responsible in general.

                UBI and healthcare are cool, but neither socialism (nor communism) is doing that. AI won’t be used to achieve these ends. There’s two reasons for this:

                1. The AI boom seems to be declining. It likely won’t last 5 years. Every single company investing in AI has incurred losses, not profits. Then there’s the environmental and resource impacts of AI and data centers needed to run them. It’s not sustainable. Companies are recalling their previously fired human workforce.

                https://isaiprofitable.com/ This website tracks the profitability of AI. It hasn’t changed much, it’s still losses. Nvidia is the only “winner” but this is misleading for many reasons. Mainly because 1) it’s at the top of this pyramid scheme and is essentially at the heart of the circular AI economy, 2) because Nvidia has (iirc) literally decided to modify the way it discloses profits w.r.t. AI so that it looks profitable.

                1. Even if AI was profitable (which it isn’t), it is an instrument of the ruling elite. It’s owned by large private institutions, not the common man. Private corporations never have the interests of the common man; they will simply be used as a facet of control via technofascism. In other words, AI won’t be used to generate UBI, it’ll only be used for surveillance and controlling the masses because it’s in the hands of the state and corporations.

                More on UBI: we’ve had research experiments on UBI take place in Canada and in the EU and they’ve typically ended positively. None were continued. States and governments don’t want what’s best for their people. They want control and power over the masses.

                That’s why I’m an anarchist.

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                  14 days ago

                  I join you every bit but no t google n the socialist, we are as an human capable of amazing thing and even more if we cooperate. I dream of a system whete every one can live vote. Did you read Dreyfus prefect série ? The technological way of voting hich can be abused too, as every system, is a really god idea. About anarchisme, how do you stop other groups from just happinh everybody like right now. You have to expect every Hyman to be decent and respect. I am genuinely curious if you can manage utilities. I see for electricity. But water will be hard, since capitalists can build a dam upper in the stream and you are fucked, and there only are a maximum of position around a water way. And for food ? Going full vegetable ? What about predators ? (Their is a story about an american town and bears, I dunnon how true it was though)

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      16 days ago

      Eurocommunism (Western socialism) and Social Democracy (Nordic Socialism) have been very successful in Europe. FDR’s New Deal was also influenced by Socialism.

      https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eurocommunism

      https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_democracy

      https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frances_Perkins

      The problem with debating about socialism online is that the terms socialism and communism are not well defined and have completely different meanings depending on who you ask. Marx didn’t invent the terms, and he would also probably disagree fiercely with all of the self-proclaimed socialists and communists in the different societies of the world.

      Anarchism is good stuff, but personally I don’t think it’s possible to ensure liberty for billions of people in a society without a (fiercely democratic) state. I would like to see more syndicalism and democratically run companies and co-ops. The biggest sin of capitalism is the idea that generational wealth gives you voting rights over the largest organizations in society.

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        15 days ago

        The EU is largely capitalist, it just has welfare policies and a welfare state that have been effective.

        I’m against the conception of a state, because I’m against centralized control and hierarchy. They always lead to exploitation, oppression, and the accumulation of wealth and power in the hands of few over the interests of the majority.

        Syndicalism is something I’m in favour of too, though.