Riverside

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[–] Riverside@reddthat.com 4 points 1 day ago (7 children)

Yes, you can choose to die on the streets instead. What's your point?

[–] Riverside@reddthat.com 5 points 1 day ago

most people will always seek to extract as much as they can from something while giving as little back as they can

This is a fairly new phenomenon during capitalism, though. People lived in community, sharing everything and contributing without measurement of work, for the longest time in human history. It's only class society that created the breeding ground for such behavior, it's not human nature, it's caused by the environment.

[–] Riverside@reddthat.com 4 points 1 day ago (8 children)

Meh. I'm a commie, and it's just a half measure. It attacks the problem of landlordism, sure, but it doesn't fight concentration of wealth in other forms, such as financial capital, capitalist ownership of media and means of production, or even climate change.

Moreover, it doesn't provide any means for organizing and actually carrying out the policy, which is why it never happens. Ideology and politics aren't exclusively a theoretical field in which we can democratically test every policy without disturbance, and Georgism doesn't answer the simple question: why would the landlords in power allow the workers to tax them our of power?

[–] Riverside@reddthat.com 2 points 1 day ago

Georgism: "let's introduce immense taxes to landlords"

You: "this is neutral and apolitical! I hate the left!"

[–] Riverside@reddthat.com 2 points 1 day ago (5 children)

Both can be done, though. There's more demand for dense housing in cities than there is availability. Simultaneously build millions of housing units for social rent and cap existing prices or directly expropriate rented housing.

[–] Riverside@reddthat.com 0 points 1 day ago (13 children)

How's there nothing wrong with paying rent? Why is someone else appropriating the fruits of MY labor just because they happen to be lucky enough to inherit a house?

[–] Riverside@reddthat.com 8 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Why wouldn't it be a problem paying rent to a normal person? Being a slave in Rome 2000 years ago, you were a slave regardless of whether you were owned by a small owner with just a few slaves, than one with 200.

[–] Riverside@reddthat.com 1 points 2 days ago

Hahaha I'm not Spanish, I'm not a communist, damn, I should reevaluate my life

[–] Riverside@reddthat.com 1 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (2 children)

Jajajaja me vas a decir a mí de dónde soy. It's amazingly racist that you can't conceive a western communist being pro-China.

Glad I disarmed you by bringing actual meaningful material improvements to the living conditions of people instead of arguing about technicalities, though.

[–] Riverside@reddthat.com 1 points 2 days ago (4 children)

My project is whichever feeds the children. China saved 800 million from poverty in half a century.

[–] Riverside@reddthat.com 1 points 2 days ago (6 children)

Oh so you're a western leftist defeatist without a political project, and you will not support anyone fighting against global imperialism because they're not "pure enough". Classic western "leftist". Your apathy and lack of solidarity empower the ones currently in power, i.e. western imperialism.

[–] Riverside@reddthat.com 0 points 2 days ago (8 children)

It was posted because it was written

All propaganda is written at some point. It being written doesnt make it less atrocity propaganda.

You seem very worried about "fake communists", what's an example of real world socialism to you?

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