cross-posted from: https://jlai.lu/post/43662539
[a character is pointing at and berating a strawman made to look like a stereotypical communist]
So, you’re a communist right?
Okay then, solve every single problem in the world right now
Create the perfect society, we’re watching, you have five minutes
Can’t do it? Sounds like your silly ideology is whack then
Tankie!
https://thebad.website/comic/reasonable_request
I hear anti-communist nonsense at work sometimes and this is what it feels like. “Commies tried so many times and it always fails!” (literally ignoring coups and regime changes, AES, that capitalism might kill us all, sex trafficking, etc)
Communism didn’t “fail” so much as it “lost”.
And to be clear, while the dissolution of the Soviet Union was devastating, there are still strong socialist states like China today. Communism didn’t lose, it took a major blow temporarily.
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Me with little theory background and almost 0 economics knowledge trying to advocate for socialism/communism to my right wing coworkers
Honestly the first thing I try to get across to people, and one that most people are receptive to is “What makes a thing itself? It’s relationships with everything else.”
Similar, but from remembering from some yt videos:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Overproduction
Non-Marxist version of the similar thing, where the focus is shifted from production to consumption:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UnderconsumptionAnd https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tendency_of_the_rate_of_profit_to_fall
Didnt capitalism take centuries to triumph over feudalism? There was embrionary capitalism in the XV or XVI century, and when the Russian Empire was liberated in 1917, it hadn’t yet completed its transition from feudalism.
Time to progress for me not for thee
Yes. And as an example the French had a long history of going between republic and monarchy. Things don’t go perfectly linearly.
Nothing funnier than watching people use a strawman themselves while attempting to illustrate an example of a strawman.
So many comics that are just “checkmate, strawman 😎”
Isn’t that the majority of what you post on political memes? To be fair to you, that’s really all political memes are for, to provoke a response. The meme itself is far less important than the possibility for it to spark a discussion in the comments.
My favorite is when people admit it works in small groups but doesn’t scale. It’s an amazingly defeatist attitude.
The problem stems from centralization. A commander sits at the top of trillions of people is fundamentally wrong, no matter how good he or she is. No one single human shall have that big of an influence to another human.
But those fucking defeatists are disgusting. No one is asking them to solve the problem. Just shut the fuck up when someone else is solving the problems. That’s the least they shall be doing.
To be fair, the idea that someone is supposed to sit at the top of society is a fundamental misunderstanding of socialism past, present, and future.
There was 70 years…
