• bazingabrain
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    9 months ago

    hah, I remember asking my parents when I was around 11-12, why communism wasnt used, it made more sense and seemed much more humane? The look they gave me is one of the few memories I still have from that time, a mix of pain, incomprehension and confusion, followed by a bunch of hand waving "they tried and it failed, its utopian, will never work". I spent the next few years being a good little neoliberal tool until I inevitably got interested in politics again and immediately switched back to being a disgusting little communist gremlin.

    I honestly believe that your political inclinations are forged very, very early on. I travelled a lot as a small kid and I got to see the kind of damage capitalism wrought on SE Asia, I couldnt name capitalism or communism at the time, but I could tell that all of this is wrong

    • Adkml [he/him]
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      9 months ago

      This is funny how close it seems to me.

      Just from the absolute basic like 8th grade deffinition of government systems I thought "gee that communism one actually seems like it makes a lot of sense but that's clearly just what edgy teenagers say for attention, there's gotta be a downside I'm not seeing"

      And then everything I read about the downsides of communism was stuff like "people are greedy so they'll missuse the system tonget more money and power, which is why we made a system that just encourages that behavior"

      The propoganda that communism was an unserious form of government had already subconsciously worked it's way in when I was like 13, fortunately all the following arguments about why capitalism was better were pretty obviously bullshit even back then.

      • bazingabrain
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        9 months ago

        "people are greedy so they'll missuse the system tonget more money and power, which is why we made a system that just encourages that behavior"

        my reaction when someone says this: SHUT UP SHUT UP SHUT UP SHUT UP SHUT UP SHUT UP SHUT UP lenin-rage

        • Adkml [he/him]
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          9 months ago

          That's the internal reaction but it's funny to watch them get defensive when you say "wow I'm not like that that's crazy you would willingly admit your a selfish asshole and assume everybody else is just as bad"

      • carpoftruth [any, any]
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        9 months ago

        there's gotta be a downside I'm not seeing

        Well, until you get off the ground, capitalists keep killing your friends

      • Mokey [none/use name]
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        9 months ago

        that's what got me to, but i never made the conclusion that a system that encourages that behavior is good or better. i don't think i even acknowledged that aspect, i just decided that the world sucks