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
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/Underconsumption
And https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tendency_of_the_rate_of_profit_to_fall