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[–] SplashJackson@lemmy.ca 66 points 1 week ago (6 children)

I thought memes were supposed to be funny... this just looks like a propaganda poster

[–] KSPAtlas@sopuli.xyz 23 points 1 week ago (2 children)

I mean, propaganda is technically a type of meme, isn't it?

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[–] eestileib@lemmy.blahaj.zone 34 points 1 week ago (21 children)

Maaaaaaybe the USSR isn't the best example of a better society we want to be building.

I'm watching the whole ideological-purge thing happen in the US and it kinda sucks.

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[–] redsand@lemmy.dbzer0.com 23 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Luigi's hand doesn't look anything like that. Someone fix this meme

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[–] oyzmo@lemmy.world 19 points 1 week ago (17 children)

Socialism allows for both public and private ownership, individual freedoms, and democratic decision-making, while still aiming for social equality. Communism, in contrast, tends to involve total state control and often limits personal freedoms.

[–] Cowbee@lemmy.ml 12 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Both Capitalism and Socialism have room for public and private ownership, the difference is which sector controls the state, large firms, and key industries. The Nordic Countries are dominated by Private Capital, ie it is Capitalist, while the PRC is dominated by Public Ownership, ie it is Socialist.

Communism limits the personal freedoms of the bourgeoisie. All Communism is, is a more developed and global form of Socialism, where the small firms that once were private have all grown into the public sector or collapsed.

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[–] void_turtle@lemmy.blahaj.zone 15 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (7 children)

The desire to dominate and the willingness to act on it has existed in a fraction of the population since before humans were human. This is the root of all evil, capitalism is a specific manifestation of this impulse that has only existed for some 400 years. If your analysis starts and ends at "capitalism bad" you miss the vast majority of oppression that has existed or will exist.

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