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   On 5/18/2024 2:28 PM, Kirk Spragg wrote:   
   > Hey Victoria though we'd best move that conversation about communism   
   > from FSX to here.   
   >   
   > ma> I am a Marxist-Leninist... aka communist/bolshevik/(derogaatory by   
   > ultra   
   > ma>leftists and liberals) tankie   
   > ma> I am a super strong avocate for 20th century Socialism   
   > ma> which is worker's state, centrally planned economy, means of   
   > production ma>seized   
   > ma>by workers, and no markets   
   >   
   > Though I'm definitely on the left, I'd have to say that history & the   
   > soviet union's failure to keep up with the west illustrate that a   
   > centrally planned economy just doesn't work well.   
   >   
   > ma> under capitalism there is severe exploitation   
   > ma> under socialism exploitation is non existant   
   > ma> exploitation is where someone who dose not contribute to society   
   > live off ma> the   
   > ma> labor of others. aka the capitalist. they live off the labor because   
   > they ma> own   
   > ma> the factories etc. aka the means of production   
   >   
   > Again history shows that just isn't the case, at uni I met a number of   
   > Russian and east european academics all of whom had horror stories of how   
   > just how exploitative Russia's socalist state was to its people.   
   >   
   > Similarly I know several Chinese Ex-Pats who say similar things about   
   > the CCP & how things are run in China.   
   >   
   > How do you envisage a new communist partly/state avoiding this?   
   >   
   > ... White dwarf seeks red giant for binary relationship.   
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   1) All big businesses started small.  Microsoft started in someone's basement.   
   2) 50% of the American economy is small businesses.   
   3) If the state is ever going to wither away, and it's going to be a Utopia as   
   Karl Marx said, then why don't the Communists just say no one owns anything   
   today unless they're carrying it?   
   4) Why not just raise the minimum wage to 50% per capita GDP after taxes?   
   5) And have free education, and 1/2 minimum wage to non-earners.  i.e. more   
   Socialism, not Communism.   
   6) Why does the government have to own all the means of production?  Why not   
   just some of the means of food production.  Or, what if businesses merely   
   couldn't ever pay dividends, what would the difference even be? At the moment   
   I'm not sure how you can restrict spending on high salaries though,   
   ultimately, everyone should get equal pay (or consumption) for an hour worked   
   at anything is obvious.  We're all equal in cost and expense and Spirit.  We   
   differ temporarily in assets until everyone has everything. Pay (in   
   Capitalism) is a return on capital, for instance your skills and education,   
   more than your labor.   
   7) Saving is what Capitalism does better than Communism.  Capitalists don't   
   consume everything they produce.  China has been saving, and so Communism has   
   apparently worked out a bit there.   
      
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