@matrix I mean, Marx was speaking of that way back in the 1800s as a common tactic of capitalism

Never forget what the CEO said: "babies aren't that profitable", regarding the baby formula shortage

@Spaghettimon Well Marx and his followers/offshoots are basically conspiracy theorists so I guess

@matrix Capitalism is a giant pyramid scheme and is measurably on the decline since it started

Considering however the real meaning of conspiracy theory, yes

Not believing any is as stupid a believing every

@Spaghettimon
I meant conspiracy theorist with negative connotation

Capitalism has been falling down since forever and yet it's lifted ton of people out of poverty and generally has improved the state of the world.

@matrix It's true that it has, even Lenin would agree
Lenin said that "Imperialist capitalism is far less oppressive than the colonialist capitalism before it, and that far less oppressive than feudalism"

However, capitalism has its limits on how many it can lift from poverty, and the limit has already been reached

Such as old systems fell because they became obsolete, capitalism will fall for a more decentralized system, a community-based system (whether in the marxist sense or not) and that is, by deffinition, community-ism, communism

@Spaghettimon
Well yes, if capitalism falls, we revert to a more shittier world. Out of ashes does not often rise Phoenix.

You are now playing language games, communism is when community exists.

@matrix Capitalism won't "fail", it will, and is already, obsolete

>communism is when community exists.
Communism is when community-centered organization

Remember that Marx didn't invent the word, merely gave his interpretation and build his ideology upon it

To this day there are non-marxist communists, such as Zizek
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@Spaghettimon
You aren't countering my counter to capitalism, you are simply reasserting your original claim.

@matrix Because you didn't counter capitalism
You said that if it fails we will go to something worse
This is not countering it, but saying it's actually the best system possible

@Spaghettimon
I fucked up, I meant: You aren't countering my counter to your claim about capitalism

Yes, capitalism is the best. It is here and it's working good enough. Claiming that failure is inevitable and after the failure only something better can appear is simply a baseless assertion.

@matrix >Claiming that failure is inevitable
Never did, but that 's collapse is
It is a giant pyramid scheme after all, it's fall is just the system working to its end

>after the failure only something better can appear is simply a baseless assertion
I agree, worse things can come, namely, fascism, which aims for a reset to feudalism

@Spaghettimon
"I never said failure is inevitable but it is"

Fascism isn't reactionary, it doesn't want to return to feudalism. It's revolutionary.
youtu.be/eyxk320Btdc

@matrix I like that your source is just a youtube video lmao

Well, read Mussolini and Hitler

@Spaghettimon
I read their manifestos.
I just don't feel like typing it out right now and sfo articulates it better than I can.

@matrix I started to watch the video and I can see the guy haven't read anything left wing

A revolution can be reactionairy. Marx says so in the 30 page Communist Manifesto
@matrix
>uses dictionary and wikipedia for sources, not actual political theory
@matrix
>nazbols want a return to soviet
This guy is a retard that never read nazbol theory
@matrix
>unironically uses the political compass, which is completely unscientific

Yeah, I can't take this guy seriously
@Spaghettimon @matrix
Fascism doesn't seek to create a feudal society, but a blend of socialism and what I would call healthy capitalism where capital benefits greater society.
@prouddegenerate @matrix @WhiteTemplar Because it takes nothing out of me

I can do class, watch youtube, play games, watch anime and give a few seconds of my time when I see a notif
@Spaghettimon @matrix @prouddegenerate @WhiteTemplar
Broke: Multitasking
Woke: Octacore hyperthreading

in b4 i regret joining this thread, too.
@Spaghettimon @WhiteTemplar @matrix @prouddegenerate I'd like to point out that I've well and truly passed the point that I regret joining this thread. I blame my Jewish overlord Spag for his dastardly propaganda luring me in here
@WhiteTemplar @matrix I am not asking what Marx wrote, I am asking for a definition and you dont know any

"capital is when stuff"
Fr?
Lmao
You're a retard
@WhiteTemplar @matrix Define stuff and define money
Would a labour voucher, like in the system of Catalonia or in some areas of NEP Russia be money

If so, how so?
@Spaghettimon @matrix
Stuff can range from things like tools, buildings, property, or other assets used in production.

Money is just a representation of value that can be exchanged for something else, whether that be an item or service.

Labor Vouchers are a form of money in my opinion, though they work slightly differently than let's say USD, but ultimately the idea behind them is to exchange them for something of actual value.
@WhiteTemplar @matrix
>Money is just a representation of value that can be exchanged for something else, whether that be an item or service
If I work for food, is work money?
@Spaghettimon @matrix
No, because work has actual value, money is basically a social construct. We agree that this piece of mostly worthless paper or numbers in a database have value.
@WhiteTemplar @matrix So you agree with Marx on this, nice

Now, that is not capital. Money is an abstraction of value, capital is an abstraction of money (and stuff like shares and nfts are abstractions of capital lmao)

Capital can't work for us, because it's a necessity, not simply a want or even malice of the capitalist class, to oppress the working class

If they are too kind, if they folow the rules and don't cheat the system, the more oppressive ones will outcompete and buy them or destroy their businesses

The nature of capitalism is a competitive market and it's the nature of competition for there to have a "winner"
The only way to avoid monopolisation is to avoid there being a "winner" of the competition is for there to not be a competition, but coexistence with other businesses instead of a need to grow ever larger, don't you agree?
@Spaghettimon @matrix
I'm not really concerned with monopolies if you have a strong government that is willing to use force to make sure they ultimately serve greater society. I also think that the government should directly control certain sectors in their entirety a la nationalization. Sectors such as energy and natural resource exploitation would be among them to ensure environmental friendliness.
@WhiteTemplar @matrix Also if that's what you advocate, it's literally China rn
@Spaghettimon @matrix
I mean, I don't have much issue with China besides the fact that the Han Chinese are a race of filthy mutts who are corrupt to their very cores.
@Spaghettimon @matrix
Source for what? Them being mutts? Try reading any Chinese history books. Generations of getting conquered by Mongolians and the surrounding peoples diluted their bloodlines until you get the modern day Han Chinese that are nothing like their ancestors that made China famous. As for their corruption, this is a bridge in China made out of literal trash.
@WhiteTemplar @matrix You know this literally applies to every single person right

Or did the germanic peoples not breed with italians, nordics, brits and so on, didn't come from somewhere, didn't have the largest semitic populations of europe and thus have the largest amount of jewish blood

You're a retard f you think "race" has this much effect when in basically every continent everyone can be traced back to a single person usually ~500 years ago only
@Spaghettimon @matrix
Germanics, Italians, Nordics, Brits, etc are all White, all European, and are thus all racially similar. jews are a filthy mutt race who are most closely related to Turkroaches. But yes, race matters and you are full of shit with the 500 years ago thing.
@WhiteTemplar @matrix You know Jews came from the middle east thousands of years ago and the turks came from China less than a single thousand years, right?
@Spaghettimon @matrix
The jews of old and modern day jews are two vastly different peoples, but in this case the history doesn't really tell you the full story of modern day jews. Genetically, modern day jews are basically an offshoot of Turks.
@Spaghettimon @matrix @WhiteTemplar The way contemporary people view race, especially whiteness, is absolutely dumb as fuck. Go back to the founding of the British colonies in north america as a german, and you weren't white. Fast forward a couple of hundred years and you're the ubermensch pinacle of white greatness. Race politics that look in that direction are garbage designed to create classes of people with more and less worth in society based on fucking n o t h i n g other than a fear of they themselves being on the bottom of the pile. Guess what, you're already there, and it has nothing to do with race, ethnicity, or skin color, and if you think any of that shit is relevant then you've been fed enough class warfare propaganda by the rich to think you're doing well.
@Forgotten @matrix @Spaghettimon
>Go back to the founding of the British colonies in north america as a german, and you weren't white.

Not true. Besides the concept of White not really being so much of a thing back then, ethnicity being the primary way Europeans discerned each other from one another, if you were to go back in time and ask if Germans were White, Anglos would say yes.

Also the so called "class warfare" you mentioned comes specifically from jews, not the rich, though said jews are indeed rich.
@WhiteTemplar @matrix @Forgotten Are most of the 14 million jews on earth not working class?

Is Bezos, Musk, Zucc, Gates, or any of the Chinese billionaires, jews?
@Spaghettimon @matrix @Forgotten
8.333333333% of the billionaires. That's an overrepresentation of 41.6666666666666 times. Doesn't that maybe tell you a little something?
@WhiteTemplar @matrix @Forgotten Well, whites are 50% of the billionaires, doesn't that tell you something?

Most of the population is asian
It doesn't matter the race of the oppressor, what matter is that they oppress
@WhiteTemplar @matrix @Spaghettimon Do you wanna get into a discussion about the roots of the banking system and money lending and how faith directly tied into it?
@WhiteTemplar @matrix @Spaghettimon If you need me to elaborate you're already too fucking stupid to be in this conversation
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@Spaghettimon @matrix @WhiteTemplar Zuckerberg is a practicing Jew.
But you know those damned Chinese Jews... Always sneaking their way around. Can't trust 'em! Go out for drinks, do a toast, and suddenly the mask slips and they let out a "l'chaim"
@Forgotten @matrix @WhiteTemplar The funny thing imo is that I am a jew and a good part of my family is jewish
And we're poor :0

Such oppression we do
@Spaghettimon @matrix @Forgotten
Oh, well that explains a lot actually. Tell me, do you believe in the Holocaust narrative?
@Spaghettimon @matrix @Forgotten
I mean, you really shouldn't believe basically any of it other than jews were put in camps and some of those jews died. That is all that can actually be proven.
@WhiteTemplar @matrix @Forgotten Even so, whether or not it did happen, it's not the reason I dislike Hitler

He was, simply put, a retard
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