• dzsimbo@lemm.ee
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    3 days ago

    The system definitely encourages and rewards explotation, but why do people do it at all? Will this behaviour stop if we penalize it? Or just gently teach the children after the bloody revolution?

    How do we get past the notion of power corrupting people? All I’m arguing is that communism is not an outright solution for society.

    I promise to read up on dialectic materialism, but the end of link you sent mentions getting a gun. That’s just bad advice.

    • Cowbee [he/they]@lemmy.ml
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      1 hour ago

      Hey, I’m the one who made the list Edie linked. What’s wrong with getting a gun, exactly? In an ideal world it wouldn’t be necessary, but we don’t live in an ideal world.

      As for “power corrupting people,” that doesn’t actually exist, that’s just a catch-all reason for any time a leader of something does something wrong.