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Liberal Economics be like (lemmy.dbzer0.com)

submitted 2 years ago by alsaaas to c/[email protected]

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[–] alsaaas 17 points 2 years ago (3 children)

Socialism is defined as the working people either directly owning or democratically controlling the economy. I don't see how that is the case in any "socialist" country at the moment (speaking of the nordic ones, Portugal, China etc)

[–] [email protected] -1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Hey hey hey now don’t bring us Nordic countries into this🥺

[–] alsaaas 11 points 2 years ago

sorry to disillusion you but your system is capitalism with a nice coat of paint over it. It's still based on exploitation, imperialism, neo-colonialism and oil/fossil fuel money

[+] [email protected] -8 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Lmao you are literally the 'but that's not real socialism/communism' meme right now 🤣

[–] alsaaas 15 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

Imma bring up an example to maybe explain it easier. North Korea calls itself the "Democratic Peoples Republic of Korea". In their official understanding/rhetoric they have a democracy in which the administration acts in the interest of the people instead of a few bureaucratic elites. In reality it's the other way around. Now, if someone said "Look at what democracy does to a country!!11!", would you not object?

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 years ago (1 children)

God damn that is an excellent, concise refutation of his tired point. Definitely going to borrow that argument in the future

[–] alsaaas 5 points 2 years ago

yeah.. the cognitive dissonance hurts