This is gold. Comrades are on their meme game this week. This one was also fire:

The US military is always asking for recruits. If you don’t read, you won’t know that “helping them” means killing civilians.

A drastic increase in military funds to Israel took place during the terrorist Biden regime:

• What about social democracy / democratic socialism / the Nordic model? Isn’t Sweden socialist?
• Scandinavia’s covert role in western imperialism
• On the unraveling of the Nordic welfare states: increasing inequality and forced austerity.

I wish more US troops would commit treason and go against the US settler colonial project. There have been cases.

“You won’t need to do any work and still get money”.

Redditors mis-defining socialism as capitalism again.

Unlike workers, Capitalists make their living, not by clocking in and being paid a certain fixed wage per hour, but through absentee ownership. Their wealth is earned while sleeping, playing golf, or visiting the mailbox to collect pieces of this wage theft, often in the form of stock dividends. A worker’s wealth is dependent on the number of hours they can work; a Capitalist’s wealth is based on how much absentee property they can accumulate, and as such can multiply infinitely. Some Capitalists earn an average worker’s yearly salary in a single night’s sleep.

For example, a Copper mine owner neither physically mines the copper, and (living thousands of miles away) likely delegates day-to-day operations to a hired manager. Yet, because they have a piece of paper that says they own it, they get a large cut of everything that was mined: the ultimate free lunch.

A 1983 report by England national income and expenditures found that on average, 26 minutes of every hour worked (or 43% of labor value added) by English workers across a wide range of industries went to various exploiting or unproductive groups, with workers receiving only 57% of their pre-tax productive output as wages¹. In other words, at least 40% of the work you do every day is stolen by Capitalists.

Socialism fundamentally works by creating a system that taxes those who have more than others and goes to those who have less than others.

Prager-U level definition that has nothing to do with socialism.

Here’s a concise definition:

Socialism : A range of social and economic systems characterized by social ownership of the means of production. It can also mean the transitional stage between capitalism and communism, sometimes referred to as the dictatorship of the proletariat.

For anyone interested, here’ a short excerpt on this point from a socialism crash course:

Unlike workers, Capitalists make their living, not by clocking in and being paid a certain fixed wage per hour, but through absentee ownership. Their wealth is earned while sleeping, playing golf, or visiting the mailbox to collect pieces of this wage theft, often in the form of stock dividends. A worker’s wealth is dependent on the number of hours they can work; a Capitalist’s wealth is based on how much absentee property they can accumulate, and as such can multiply infinitely. Some Capitalists earn an average worker’s yearly salary in a single night’s sleep.

For example, a Copper mine owner neither physically mines the copper, and (living thousands of miles away) likely delegates day-to-day operations to a hired manager. Yet, because they have a piece of paper that says they own it, they get a large cut of everything that was mined: the ultimate free lunch.

A 1983 report by England national income and expenditures found that on average, 26 minutes of every hour worked (or 43% of labor value added) by English workers across a wide range of industries went to various exploiting or unproductive groups, with workers receiving only 57% of their pre-tax productive output as wages¹. In other words, at least 40% of the work you do every day is stolen by Capitalists.

Mark as NSFW please

Means we can’t effectively “live a pleasurable life / gather roses while we can in this life”, because the next lives downstream will keep experiencing suffering just like we do, and it multiplies to infinity, unless we do something in this life to escape suffering.

Even if you don’t believe in rebirth, it’s hard to deny that it does give a good impetus and sense of urgency that gets us to look beyond our own existence.

You just gotta act like one and you should be good. Sleep a lot and live for food and you’re all set.

No probs!

China is not “state capitalist” or mercantilist. Its a socialist market economy with a limited / restricted private sector, where the publicly owned portion dominates the economy, and private capital is not allowed to rise to the level of political power.

• The backbone of the economy is state ownership and socialist planning. 24 / 25 of the top revenue companies are state-owned and planned. 70% of the top 500 companies are State-owned. 1, 2 The largest bank, construction, electricity, and energy companies in the world, are CPC controlled entities, subject to the 5 year plans laid out by the central committee.
• Workplace democracy in action in the CPC.
• Is modern day china communist? Is it staying true to communist values?
• Didn’t China go Capitalist with Deng Xiaoping? Didn’t it liberalize its economy? Is China’s drastic decrease in poverty a result of the increase in free market capitalist policies?
• Is the CPC committed to communism?
• The Long Game and Its Contradictions. Audiobook
• The myth of Chinese state capitalism. Did Deng really betray Chinese socialism?
• Tsinghua University- Is Socialism with Chinese Characteristics real socialism, or is it state Capitalism?
• Isn’t China revisionist for having a capitalist sector of the economy, and working with capitalists? Why isn’t it fully planned like the USSR was?
• Castro on why both China and Vietnam are socialist countries.
• Roderic Day - China has billionaires.
• What is socialism with Chinese characteristics (SWCC)?
• How is SWCC not revisionist? How is it any different from Gorbachev’s market reforms?, 2
• Domenico Losurdo - is China state capitalist?, 2

/uj

People read communist theory because they want to find the root causes of their own and societal poverty. So they’re not really separate social groups / classes, one person is just asking the why and the other isn’t.

Unfortunately a lot of other instances let white / western supremacists set up shop there, and don’t moderate them.

Both Mao and Deng era’s both had foreign investment, and high growth rates compared to capitalist countries.

Both are still built on the foundation of socialism: 5 year plans, no private land ownership, public ownership commanding the heights of the economy, and a smaller capitalist sector for foreign investment.

From 1949-1978, the Mao Era, China’s GDP grew an average of 7% per annum. Mao sincerely wanted the Chinese to get rich, just that all that wealth must be distributed as equally as possible. This is reflected in China’s 1978 GINI coefficient being a very egalitarian 0.16. A GINI coefficient of zero means that all the income is evenly distributed to all citizens and a coefficient of one means one person has all the income and everybody else has nothing. As a comparison, Sweden’s is currently 0.25, the lowest in the world, China’s is 0.37, the US’s is 0.41 and for all of humanity, 0.65. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gini_coefficient

With the advent of Deng Xiaoping’s reforms and opening up China’s economy to do battle with Western capitalism(the Deng Era, 1979-2012), China’s economy has grown an average of 10% per annum, while America’s growth averaged 6%. A not-well-known point of history is that many of Deng’s reforms were actually started by Mao, Deng and Zhou Enlai, going back into the 70s and 60s, which helps explain the Mao Era’s phenomenal socioeconomic achievements. These earlier reforms were cleverly rebranded as “new” by Deng. Western capitalists eagerly lapped it up, in their lustful pursuit of Chinese profits, starting in 1978.

These imperial lies have continued into the Deng Era. China is still a communist and socialist country. Baba Beijing has simply used the West’s methods, markets, investment and technology to continue to advance the wellbeing of China’s people, within its non-capitalist economy. This is hard for most Westerners to wrap their heads around, that China has been and continues to be a communist and socialist country, till now, 2015, and will continue to be so as long as Baba Beijing is in power. This explains why the West has been relentlessly trying to overthrow the Communist Party of China (CPC), since liberation in 1949.

• The Long Game and Its Contradictions. Audiobook
• The myth of Chinese state capitalism. Did Deng really betray Chinese socialism?

Vibes based analysis with nothing backing it except vague anticommunism.

This is the west’s leading country, accusing its enemies of “authoritarianism”:

PRC, USSR, Cuba, Vietnam, DPRK. All succeeded where others failed in defeating western colonialist attempts, and lifted hundreds of millions of people out of poverty.

PRC deserves special recognition for lifting more people out of poverty in the past 30 years than any other country in history… so much so that world poverty is increasing if we leave it out.

You can read the full context of this here.

Votes are transparently federated, but only shown to admins via a few special endpoints, in order to fight one of the biggest spam vectors currently on the fediverse, which is federated downvote spammers. Lemvotes is a single user server / spying tool to circumvent that reasonable expectation of user privacy.

I doubt they’ve asked their users if they want this spying tool to hoover up their votes.