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Hm, these "Foundation of Economic Education" folks don't sound too bad...

The Foundation for Economic Education is listed as a partner organization of the Charles Koch Institute.[3]

Lol

To sum up the vid:

It's not actually communism, it's democratic participation in a cooperative, classless society with the goal of meeting each other's needs and contributing to the greater whole!

:engels-wut:

It's also not new! Early societies have done this and certain groups of people do it today!

:marx-hi:

I suppose the response to these kinds of bad faith arguments is "Cool, maybe it's not communism. So why are we not choosing this over Capitalism then?"

(Admittedly, I haven't watched the show so maybe he is right and Jackson is not really a Communist society, just not with the arguments he presented.)

  • RamrodBaguette [comrade/them, he/him]
    hexagon
    ·
    2 years ago

    There was also the whole trope with the evil KGB/NKVD officer threatening a main character's life for shits and giggles because why not. Same shite that Stranger Things pulls.

    • zifnab25 [he/him, any]
      ·
      2 years ago

      Yeah, sure. American TV fully internalizes ACAB so long as the cop isn't speaking English.

      But I'd call that a fractional view of "Russians" with respect to the overall story.

      • RamrodBaguette [comrade/them, he/him]
        hexagon
        ·
        2 years ago

        Yeah, sure. American TV fully internalizes ACAB so long as the cop isn’t speaking English.

        Good observation. Makes me laugh when, in Stranger Things S4, there's a bit of an aside about how there's a term in Russian for "pig" (reference to Soviet cops and prison guards) whereas the cops of Hawkins PD are portrayed as well-intentioned if useless against the supernatural.