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Communists don't care for that distinction, they believe all landlords (even non-exploitative ones like you mentioned) are inherrently exploitative and therefore deserving of death. Yes, this applies to you even if you just rent out a room, but don't worry, money won't exist and everything will be free!
This is about as garbage take as the ones being discussed.
Well, that's what they always tell me they believe, sorry your representatives are poor ones I suppose.
Yeah, you sound like you were really receptive to what they were trying to say, I'm sure you didn't colour it at all...
Oh well of course they give the option of just doing what they say and completely restructuring society to stay alive in most cases, but imo that doesn't count, I think they're really just using that as an excuse.
I hope this is doing something for your emotional needs but it's got nothing to do with anyone else. Have fun, chief.
I just can't align myself with ideologies like that, it is what it is. Don't worry, I usually have fun.
I'm not commenting on your misalignment with the ideology, but rather your intellectual dishonesty. You can't even think about "ideologies like that" without twisting your own mind up and telling yourself a bunch of lies to make yourself feel better.
I'm not saying communism is good or bad. I'm saying: you don't know because you are unable to examine it honestly and rationally.
Yeah, talk to a few people on hexbear or lemmygrad and tell me I'm being intellectually dishonest. People on lemmy call for the death of landlords constantly, go ahead and ask thrm to specify and see if one of them makes the distinction. They always say "she's perpetuating the capitalist system so she's not inocent, and private property and money won't exist after the revolution so she can forfeit her rental property or get killed, and she won't need the income because everything will be free since there is no money and you instead own the product of your labor. At least she gets to keep the house she lives in if she capitulates!" Every fucking time. I didn't make it up out of nowhere my dude, "I learned it from watching you."
You clearly don't know what you are talking about
No u.
All landlords for profit are exploitative. All profit is exploitative. You're literally on the piracy instance, why would you wanna suck off capitalists? lmao
"Capitalists" aren't some all powerful boogeyman stealing your essence in the night, especially when you broaden the category from "actually evil corporations" to pensioners or families renting out their starter home, or some guy renting out a room. I don't feel it's right to slaughter the nice old woman who rented us the punk house back in the day simply for trying to afford her meds in retirement, no. Sorry, but we're just not gonna get me to agree that killing innocent people is "good."
No, they're all powerful boogeymen in control of our entire society who have us sell our bodies just to live. They do all this in daylight where it can be seen, and are such clever con artists are to make fools think it's good and normal to do so.
I never claimed that, nor do I wish to kill the guilty, but if wishing execution (a penalty under law) of an oppressive class is not "killing innocent people".
But go off
And when this didn't happen? Because on USSR you could go to jail if you didn't work.
On every society, if you want to enjoy things made by it and not do your part, you are just a parasite, just like the capitalists you are against. So maybe you are a capitalist wanna be
Who said anything about the USSR being good?
Funny that you go to the old "you're just jealous and that's why you hate capitalism so much" pov though. I have no interest in your bad faith arguments, so I'm not gonna engage further than this. Google what arguments people use against that or something if that'll make you feel better.
I'm not talking about jealousy, I'm talking about people who just want to parasite other peoples work while they(you) think work is something made only by bourgeoisie
Yes yes my landlady was part of some secret cabal that runs the world. I've heard this one before, next you're gonna tell me it's because she's in league with the reptile jews or some nonsense, it's all the same.
Bruh
No u.
This is actually the Canadian instance, you seem a bit lost bud.
I am Canadian lmao
Eh, maybe I misunderstood what you were saying here
I think you did. Person I was responding to had dbzer0 as their home instance, which was made with the express purpose of giving piracy on lemmy a (somewhat) dedicated home.
Gotcha, I had thought you meant the instance this thread is in. Your comment makes more sense now.
Correction, terminally-online twitter communists don't care for the distinction. People who actually go outside and put in the work aren't making enemies out of individuals renting out a room, they're too busy going after giant multi-national corporations buying out all the houses so that nobody else can get them, and then jacking up the rents once there's no alternatives.
Communism is about systems, not individuals. Anyone saying otherwise is either disinformed or is a radical liberal playing make-believe
They don't deserve execution, they deserve a Georgist-style Land Value Tax!
I am far more right than socialists and communists and yet, what you say is something that you wouldn't get marks for in the exams you have to take for our courses.