in North Soviet China children are taught to etc.

  • SovietyWoomy [any]
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    3 years ago

    Let's just ignore that under capitalism the means of production are controlled by dictators rather than democracies and that anyone who exercises their "freedom" to refuse to serve under a dictator will either be sentenced to death by homelessness and starvation or will be imprisoned for the crime of being homeless and used as a slave in a for-profit prison.

    • Des [she/her, they/them]
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      3 years ago

      my first big proto-leftist revelation was "wait if we live in a 'democracy' but are under a totalitarian dictatorship for 8-10 hrs a day that also extends into our personal life then aren't we just living in a dictatorship?"

      • Rod_Blagojevic [none/use name]
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        3 years ago

        The best AFL-CIO meme was a campaign around "democracy at work ". I think everyone intuitively knows that all workplace related affairs are dangerously undemocratic.