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I don't think you're a rival gang, I think you sympathize with communist agitators because you're a communist. If you read the post that I made, I don't believe in beating people up over politics, nor do I subscribe to an ideology that is contingent on group think, hence I'm not a participant in this imagined gang war.
As for my sympathy for communism it is really difficult to grow up extremely poor in the US only to have to exchange my labor and the hours of my life as an adult for the very minimum the owners of the country will pay me.
As an economic system I freely admit that I would choose communism over capitalism any day. What man without capital wouldn't choose that? If you really break down as, "Do I want a system where everybody has enough to live on?" or "do I want a system where the rich boys get to control everything and I have to hop when they say to?" It is pretty clear to me what position I must take.
But I know as well as anybody else that a communist revolution just ends up being a dictatorship. It ends up becoming a state controlled economy that never ends until the government that does the enforcing falls.
So when you factor government into the equation the questions become, "Do I want a system where the rich boys control everything?" Or "Do I want a system where the government controls everything." And when it gets phrased like that I have to pick the rich boys.
But deep in my heart. After years of being forced to toil for those fools just so I could climb my way into middle class has filled me with a hatred and bile that will never die. All I want more than anything is to see those rich boys eat mud before I die.
You can call me a communist for that if you want but it's not really about economics at all. It's much more than that.
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[–] dontforgetaboutevil ago (edited ago)
What about it? What about my post history makes you think I'm from a rival gang to yours instead of a lone man of principle?
[–] collegetoker [S] ago
I don't think you're a rival gang, I think you sympathize with communist agitators because you're a communist. If you read the post that I made, I don't believe in beating people up over politics, nor do I subscribe to an ideology that is contingent on group think, hence I'm not a participant in this imagined gang war.
[–] dontforgetaboutevil ago (edited ago)
Well give me the same credit.
As for my sympathy for communism it is really difficult to grow up extremely poor in the US only to have to exchange my labor and the hours of my life as an adult for the very minimum the owners of the country will pay me.
As an economic system I freely admit that I would choose communism over capitalism any day. What man without capital wouldn't choose that? If you really break down as, "Do I want a system where everybody has enough to live on?" or "do I want a system where the rich boys get to control everything and I have to hop when they say to?" It is pretty clear to me what position I must take.
But I know as well as anybody else that a communist revolution just ends up being a dictatorship. It ends up becoming a state controlled economy that never ends until the government that does the enforcing falls.
So when you factor government into the equation the questions become, "Do I want a system where the rich boys control everything?" Or "Do I want a system where the government controls everything." And when it gets phrased like that I have to pick the rich boys.
But deep in my heart. After years of being forced to toil for those fools just so I could climb my way into middle class has filled me with a hatred and bile that will never die. All I want more than anything is to see those rich boys eat mud before I die.
You can call me a communist for that if you want but it's not really about economics at all. It's much more than that.