• MothmanDelorian@lemmy.world
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    Nah it’s someone who is a class traitor who believes authoritarians who murder in the name of leftism is doing good when IRL these nations aren’t leftist at all eg China which has stock markets.

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      One does not simply “do” communism. You have to transition into it. Also, I shouldn’t have to tell a leftist that capitalism isn’t “when you have markets.” Read a book. Specifically Capital.

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        Also, I shouldn’t have to tell a leftist that capitalism isn’t “when you have markets.”

        A stock market is trade in the ownership of the means of production by private individuals, ffs

        It is one of the innovations of capitalism. Jesus Christ.

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          Owning stock in a company does not give you control over the means of production. Sorry bud. Also, I don’t remember Marx ever claiming that every innovation of capitalism must be discarded to achieve socialism. Has no one actually read Capital?