Edited to add - To be clear for anyone, it's Oligarchs/Billionaires paired with rampant, unfettered corporate greed. (at least in my view)
Someone reminded me that I was using dogwhistle parlance in my use of they which may have suggested otherwise.
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I think literally any type of socialist system will be better than what we have ๐ฎโ๐จ
Man, fuck all that. "Socialists" just let authoritarians into power who then never let go. Your revolution will just leave a warlord in a Che shirt.
Democratic governments with strong social safety nets and robust middle classes are consistently capitalistic. Do you have an example otherwise?
edit: 20 minutes, four downvotes, and zero examples otherwise.
edit: maybe I've blocked 10 authoritarian tankies that I cannot read their replies. Hmm.
... and the Zapatists then? The Spanish Republic? The Makhovivschna?
Democratic communism is not only achievable, it has been done. And the issue is that often, capitalists seek to crush it the moment they can. So we must protect each other.
Tiny. Hardly a success. Those guys were kinda cool.