Victim of Communism

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Cake day: June 14th, 2023
  • UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.worldtoLemmy Shitpost@lemmy.world•GoldEnglish
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    9 days ago

    Being rich means having a surplus of valuable commodities and capital.

    In a modern capitalist system, the commodities are fetishized in order to inflate their received value.

    But in a more socialized system, shared capital has the capacity to enrich everyone.

    The big catch is that, under a more socialist economy existing in parallel with a capitalist media, poverty becomes associated with the public institutions while capitalism becomes indicative of education, independence, and success.

    An individual might be wealthy with respect to historical peers under a socialist model, but still feel improvised relative to the elites and their horded private wealth. That they’ve got access to libraries and parks and subways and public housing doesn’t feel like wealth relative to the country clubbers who have more grandeous private versions of all of the above.

    You’ll see this in Western depictions of Soviet states all the time. Small apartments, bread lines, and grumpy bureaucrats are slanted as rampant poverty. Meanwhile, homelessness and malnutrition and the lawless frontier are all just part of the Hero’s Journey on the way to glory.

  • UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.worldtoLemmy Shitpost@lemmy.world•*Permanently Deleted*English
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    10 days ago

    The problem with fascism is that it is very difficult to campaign against it before it arrives, because you just sound hysterical.

    And it is even more difficult to campaign against it after it arrives, because… well… you know. The fascism.

    But also, The Ad Council was really great at spending small fortunes on pithy ads. Really terrible at actually organizing community groups in defiance of any of these policies. Like, it was a cornerstone of the Bush Era brand of non-partisan liberalism. It operated under the theory “If we just tell people there’s a problem then they’ll figure out the solution”. And the leadership was so deep in bed with the federal government that messaging failed to do more than echo the views of the prevailing administration.

    Incidentally, there’s a reason you need to throw back to a clip from 2002 to talk about censorship in libraries. You’re not going to see a ton of Ad Council work on government censorship OR libraries under the current government.

  • UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.worldtoMemes@lemmy.ml•Just just one more protest guys! That'll show em! VoTEeee!English
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    19 days ago

    It truly is crazy to see the South Korean government go through these spasms of corporate consolidation, fascist media turns, and repeated threats of military dictatorship, while liberals scream “Whataboutism!” whenever it makes news.

    Did you know the last six South Korean presidents have been prosecuted either during or immediately following their terms in office? And that we’re supposed to believe this is a sign of a healthy and functioning democracy?