Communism looks good on paper

and looks even better in the real world

  • ZeroHora@lemmy.ml
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    You asked:

    How many illiterate?

    They answered that is not that many???

    Lastly, there is no chance in hell China’s literacy reached 97%

    Because a bird told you?

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      Because a bird told you?

      I think their source is much worse, after all they write things like this:

      Capitalism is also a true ideal as long as it’s built on an immovable foundation of human rights paid for by centralized non profit corporations.

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      The capitalist subject, so accustomed to being lied to and ripped of by their society, refuses to believe that any socio-economic order can deliver good results for the people in it. This is what passes for “common sense” in capitalist countries: a religious belief that anyone who claims to want to make things better is lying to you.

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        All idealism regardless of type can be summed up in one belief: that it is not possible to improve the world. Materialism, on the other hand, posits that it is possible. Is it any wonder that Capital goes to such lengths to keep materialist thought out of its public discourse? The worker who believes they cannot improve their lot poses little threat to Capital.

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        The saddest thing is how “enlightened” they feel in believing that there is no alternative, and that feeling further entrenches them in capitalist realism. Anyone who believes otherwise is a sucker, a naïve utopian.