"This is basically communism"
Look inside
Happened due to profit motive

[a lens distorted cat stares at us naively]

https://thebad.website/comic/everything_wrong_about_capitalism_is_communism

The US surveillance state is communism, you read it here first.

Political literacy.

What a fking chud, its hilarious to see him getting blasted in the comments 🤣

Everything wrong about capitalism and communism is human nature.

Nope, it's the nature of hierarchies and gaps in human perception that happen to line up, not our intrinsic nature. We can build something more than this, it's just slightly harder to do.

Anon opens a history book.

Sees communism examples.

Looks closer.

It's an obvious dictatorship with aspects of slavery.

Finds capitalism examples.

Looks closer.

It's a non-obvious dictatorship with aspects of slavery.

Anon is confused and throws book away.

• "There are not enough good examples for me to believe that something can be good. " - he says.

The fact that communism hasn't ever worked on a large scale without authoritarianism should tell you something.

Or the fact that it hasn't ever worked on a large scale without authoritarianism due to a wildly uneven distribution of resources and capital before communism happened

Potato Potato

Communism relies on the government controlling everything to function. It requires some level of authoritarianism.

don't make me tap the sign

bolshevism is not communism

you're focusing on a single form of government and saying it's the only way communism could exist when a lot of scholars can't even agree on if it should exist within the discussion of communism or if it should just be considered socialism, or if its coalescion of authority was extensive enough to just be another example of another capitalist society.

Yes, as opposed to all those super democratic capitalist third world countries.

You do realize that large scale classless civilisations existed in the past right?