Capitalists doing capitalism is like communism ?
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Technology@lemmygrad.ml•Italian neofascists considered building an authoritarian AI to solve unemployment. They are far from alone.
1·2 years agoI guess we got lucky (for now).
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Neurodiversity@lemmygrad.ml•How do I do away with the blue dots on YouTube for my subscription list?
3·2 years agoI know you can make accounts on piped or invidious (YouTube frontends for better privacy with no ads) and then subscribe to the channels there. I’m not sure about it but they probably don’t have that dot thing if I had to guess.
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China@lemmygrad.ml•Huawei distributed RMB$77 billions bonus to 140,000 employees, an average of RMB$54,000 per employee
12·2 years agoWow. I didn’t know Huawei was a coop so I made some research and it’s actually pretty cool.
Also found the stupidest NYT article of all time Who Owns Huawei? The Company Tried to Explain. It Got Complicated. .
The title doesn’t make sense when they literally explain just a very normal workers coop at the end of the article:
“Shares of this virtual stock let employees share in the company’s financial success (and its losses). And they entitle their holders to elect members to Huawei’s Representatives’ Commission, which in turn elects members of the board of directors.”
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Ask Lemmygrad@lemmygrad.ml•Is there a political group that believes in achieving communism through socialism but is opposed to the state ?
4·2 years agoWell, I hoped I would get to be in it since apparently I invented it but I guess you are the most Marxists among all of us since you said so and people don’t lie on the internet. So, go and get us communism king (gender neutral)
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Comradeship // Freechat@lemmygrad.ml•Michael Parenti podcast?
3·3 years ago(Not available on AntennaPod)


Your conflation of fascist capitalism with communist governance reveals a fundamental misunderstanding of both systems.
Fascism emerges as capitalism’s most violent and repressive form, which is needed in a country where there is an opposition between different classes of people, when bourgeois power has to preserve and stabilize it’s rule over the people.
In a capitalist state, the police is a repressive apparatus, ICE raids and deportations under Trump terrorize migrant workers, creating a climate of fear that discourage labor organizing and reduces to zero the migrant’s ability to fight against wage theft and unsafe conditions when they are already the most exploited. Also by giving power to white supremacist groups the state fragments class solidarity and such a divided people can’t possibly create any strong opposition to the government.
Communism, by contrast, seeks to abolish classes entirely. The Berlin Wall and the GDR’s policies cannot be equated to capitalist authoritarianism without reckoning with the material conditions that necessitated them, which was not that of a class trying to force another into submission, but that of trying to resist against western sabotage.
As you can find in this article by William Blum, the CIA and NATO actively destabilized East Germany for decades by poisoning food supplies, bombing infrastructure, and recruiting skilled workers educated at socialist expense. These acts of economic warfare forced the GDR to defend its sovereignty. These acts of economic warfare, forced the GDR’s government to increase it’s border security. The wall was a defensive measure that even stabilized the Cold War preventing a hot war between the two Germanies. it likely helped prevent a nuclear conflict.
Meanwhile, the claim that socialist states resemble fascist dictatorships ignores historical reality. East Germany dismantled Nazism in it’s borders, while the FRG recycled Hitler’s bureaucrats and generals. You can find more about this in the book “Stasi State or Socialist Paradise?: The German Democratic Republic and What Became of It”, written after the reunification by someone who lived in East Germany.
Socialist states like East Germany have historically restrict movement only insofar as imperialism really threatens their existence, not the vague “cultural” excuses Republicans use for stuff like the one OP posted about.