• boredtortoise
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    10 months ago

    A capitalist economy is inherently authoritarian and conservative, stifling liberties and freedoms for most

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        10 months ago

        The hierarchy of capitalism where holding more money and wealth is authority and power over those who have less.

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          10 months ago

          That’s in every country though, regardless of its economic system. For Communism, it’s just the state that has the authority and power

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            10 months ago

            Isn’t communism stateless though? And vanguard party totalitarian states aren’t it.

            Anyway, there’s an infinite amount of options which aren’t capitalist to move on with

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              10 months ago

              Communism is meant to be stateless, yeah!

              but in practice it has a central authoritarian state.

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                10 months ago

                We don’t really know the second sentence. Any central authoritarian state doesn’t have communist qualities and such a state can’t be trusted on what they claim they are