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[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (3 children)

If you aren't communist are you capitalist?

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago (3 children)

No, you might be a primitivist, feudalist, syndicalist, or any of many other ways of organizing society. What you adopt will depend on your values and how you perceive the relationship between people and capital. Ultimately the labels are helpful up to a point, because the application of theory, or praxis, will manifest in ways to meet the need of your time.

Just to get ahead of it, capitalist can mean both one who supports capitalism as a way to organize society, and one who owns capital. From context it's clear we mean the former definition.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago

Now you're just listing assassin's creed games

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

I get that there are other types of organizations. However I was being a dick and saying that if you aren't for capitalism you are for communism. Obviously they are other choices but just for ease sake.

It's kinda like if you aren't this then by default you are this. Null hypothesis and such. Yada yada

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Found the communist

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

I'm sorry I never got into Pokemon so I have no clue what you're talking about

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

So confused. Is this a meme I've missed ? Reductionist?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

It's a reference to an early XKCD comic

[–] [email protected] -3 points 1 year ago

You can be other things, but one thing which has no third position is hating class division or benefiting from/loving class division in society.