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[–] Soup@lemmy.world 29 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Capitalism creates an environment of fear and danger and promotes of level of individual responsibility that alienates people from everyone else. Even people who are well off today are afraid of losing advantages and being hung out to dry by the very same uncaring system they keep supporting.

[–] Mr_WorldlyWiseman@lemmy.blahaj.zone -5 points 5 days ago (1 children)

It's not that cut and dry. There is a lot of overlap between capitalism and communism.

[–] Soup@lemmy.world 4 points 5 days ago (1 children)
  1. I never said the solution was full-blown communism. God, have the barest capability of nuance.

  2. You clearly aren’t smoking responsibly if you genuinely believe that to be true.

[–] Mr_WorldlyWiseman@lemmy.blahaj.zone -1 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (2 children)

You don't understand Marx or Lenin if you don't understand their belief in the relationship between capitalism and communism.

My point was that there's more nuance than just "capitalism always causes social fragmentation"

[–] Soup@lemmy.world 2 points 4 days ago

Ok, help me understand it then.