great woman theory

Barter within primitive communism was literally a very early stage of commodity production, advancement and generalization of which turned into capitalism.

The act of exchange already implies a degree of private ownership (as in, whatever is being bartered isn't part of the social stock that's free for the taking if needed), there might be traces of value present within the exchange (i.e. equivalence of trade subconsciously measured by something as to prevent trading a single berry for a stone chair) and yada yada.

It wasn't capitalism because goods were mainly being produced for different reasons, but the act of barter was definitely a development towards commodity production, and by extension capitalism - after all, it'd be absurd to think that it came out of nowhere.

10/10 shitpost, no notes

it's a shame anarchists continue their tradition in splitting the left and preventing anything from being done, instead of uniting with other leftists who want all the good and moral things (like this fine gentlexem OP here) and taking down John Capitalism who's from USA (the only evil capitalist imperialist nation in the world)

On an unrelated note, China please give us money

I've read some of his most major works (technofeudalism, another now and his account of the Greek debt crisis) back when I was still a leftist and looking back the amount of bs he spouses is astonishing, selling more snake oil than Henry George and his "one simple trick".

Capitalism is literally a system of commodity production (production for exchange) and due to the nature of commodities markets get created. "The wealth of those societies in which the capitalist mode of production prevails, presents itself as “an immense accumulation of commodities", its unit being a single commodity." is the very first sentence in Capital by Karl Marx.

What Varoufakis is saying here is that if stock market or private ownership transfers get restricted, suddenly it's not capitalism anymore which is not true at all, it doesn't change why things are produced or what they lead to and also indirectly calls state capitalism (where the ownership is (largely) nationalized) as being anti-capitalist.

Fascism, if you look at Mussolini's Italy

Hue and cry

Uhhhh, that'll show them..?

Probably the biggest problem with this is that you need to read an absolute wall of text or watch a YouTube video to actually understand what's going on, something that the target audiences are unlikely to do, not to mention other issues like how ignorable it all is.

Reminds me of Romania right now where the centrist candidate that won the presidential elections (and tons of people on here celebrated because it wasn't a reactionary right-winger) refused to ban and straight up endorsed legionary and fascist organizations to "fight communism"

Article in Romanian, though using machine translation will get the general idea across

Yeah unless there's an actual attack where a bunch of throwaway accounts mass-downvote certain posts, banning a single individual for daring to downvote is wild

It's also my first time seeing that vote-viewing website and it's honestly a bit insane that this quirk is part of Lemmy design ngl

I love it when some shooting or tragedy happens, if it's workers then all they get is one line at best and their lives get abbreviated to a statistic, but when some capitalist dies every news site writes about how great and authentic they were for a couple days.

Though given how this shooting was an example of lone wolf adventurism, it's quite dumb to support it - the CEO will be replaced by an identical cog in the machine like always, a decent part of the public will get alienated thanks to anti-violence culture and media narratives (as seen in articles like there) and the shooter just threw away their life.

Though I won't lie that it doesn't make the day a bit better to see capitalist get gunned down

I can assure you, most of them still don't care.

They're fighting Trump though! I've peeked a couple of times at the Democrat subreddit and it's always "some democrat saying some MEAN one-liner towards Trump during some hearing! #resist".

50 more of those one-liners and Trump will feel soooo bad and quit being a president, which will fix literally everything (great man theory)!

Even with how shitty conservative elements are, most of the issues they raise are actually correct and often missed by progressive elements, but their proposed solutions or narrative around those issues is pure garbage.

I remember seeing Andrew Tate of all people start talking about how people are living a slave's life, working for others while getting barely enough for subsistence with no real prospects for social mobility, a point that one could pull from Marx. However, the solution that he proposes is a theocracy and return to traditionalism for some reason, which is nonsense.

Maybe if you read Lenin you would understand

Bro literally made a dogshit post screeching about anti-electorialists in a community that has a rule against screeching about anti-electorialists, and the post got removed for breaking that rule.

The injustice is insane...!

Nobody asked for one, but I got a pretty good explanation for why this is what why this is happening.

ML's on lemmy are predominantly of the "deprogram" variety (in reference to the deprogram podcast and r/thedeprogram being quite large on reddit), and generally they're a laughing stock given the narratives they parrot that are so de-attached from the material reality and their various mannerisms when it comes to arguing. One of the larger narratives is that the west and western imperialism is horrible (which is true), and that whoever is opposed to it must be a force for good or something, which manifests as uncritical support for China, Russia, Iran even though they're both imperialist bourgeoisie states too.

I see some people claim that they're some paid Russian shills, which is wrong. They do it for free, with a genuine belief because that's what their community says and does.

There were still classes back in the day, serfdom, slavery, guilds that had similar exploitation to wage labor. There was plenty of coercion to get labor done.

Real liberal democracy has never been tried

It's not a stretch, it's outright false to call it communism or socialism, systems which necessitate the abolishment of capitalist mode of production (commodity production, private ownership, markets) and money. China, meanwhile, literally has billionaires, still produces things under capitalist mode of production and the only oddity it has compared to other Capitalist countries is partially nationalized economy (which Mussolini has also done, it's not socialism by itself).

It's just a social democracy.