“Communism bad”
“Why?”
200 year old tropes so ancient they were debunked by Marx himself
Of course, you go through the motions of explaining the most basic political concepts that could be grasped by skimming the cliff notes for literally any Marxist works
“Friedrich Engels? Is he like the president of Germany or something?”
It’s like a kindergartener trying to teach you calculus.
That is why they always side with the fascists, like clockwork. They keep doubling down in their anti-communism that eventually they’re indistinguishable from actual fascists.
Also you nailed the Engels thing 😂 they have no clue who he is.
It worked for
who claims to have studied communism for over 20 years and by study he meant be really mad at the Manifesto.I think he’s read Solzhenitsyn too haha
I’ve read the Gulag Archipelago that Peterson recommends.
It’s the most propaganda ridden book I’ve read about the USSR, so many factual inaccuracies and lies.
Dude’s own ex wife said in an interview that it’s all nonsense
Western “communism studies” invariably consists of undergrad classes taught by either cold warrior professors or miserable academics, and the “study” consists entirely of regurgitating passages from whatever pseudointellectual anticommunist steaming drivel Anne Applebaum shat out this year.
realizing this has actually helped my mental health so much. liberals are fundamentally unserious about politics, so I simply don’t have to care what they think, in the same way I don’t care about childrens opinion on topics they dont understand. it’s very liberating, I’ve found
Death to America
200 year old tropes so ancient they were debunked by Marx himself
In the very first lecture of my Macro 101 course in undergrad, my libertarian econ professor talked about how if the LTV was correct then an inedible mud pie would have as much value as a real pie. I was delighted when I first read Capital and I saw that Marx debunked this very myth like on page 4. Marx is great at anticipating objections and then thoroughly responding, it’s just the libs don’t bother to read him.
“socially necessary labor time” is a phrase to liberals like garlic to vampires
Are these dumbasses aware that they’re not the first people in the world to think of the most basic and simple objections?
It’s lovely to hear people say that Marx has been debunked. Have they read Marx? No, of course not. The debunkers who they DID read hadnt either so this conversation is always pleasant
What is the debunking, for those of us who are unread savages.
value is produced not by “any labor time that i imagine” but by “socially necessary labor time.” mud pies are not socially necessary in any context, and it would be an absurd counterfactual to attempt to defend. the hypothetical society too stupid to realize that mud pies are worthless.
mud pies are not socially necessary in any context
It’s not funny. It should be terrifying. Because confidence works. Because that’s how millions of people have been convinced in the holiness of capitalism and will fight you, literally fight you with guns and bombs, to prevent even a ghost of communism from echoing meekly anywhere in their bubble.
And they back it all up with decades upon decades of propaganda, media, shite pushed endlessly since the creation of USSR at least. Which feeds the confidence. “Oh yeah, if gommunism so good why did this random bloke who ran away from Russia in 1992 as his country burned and boiled around him says he lives okay in USA?! Checkmate, tankie!”.
It’s not funny, it’s not fun. It’s horrifying and gutwrenching
how did this fascism end up in my anticommunism??!?!?!?!?!?
Liberals keep saying history is written by the winners while simulatenously believing everything Westerners wrote about communism after the Cold War.
You also get libs from ex-socialist countries that go
"You wouldn’t like communism like I lived it in x Warsaw pact country "
Then they follow that with the most racist, fascistic thing possible. Happens everytime
Don’t forget born in 1992
Pfff. More like 2003
Communism is when PiS (or Platforma, depending on who you ask) is in power.
the way libs talk about communism is on the same level of sophistication as evangelicals explaining how evolution is bunk
“This story I really like that I interpret in a crude and narratively literal way says that I am the chosen one of epic destiny and everyone outside of my special group is stupid and wrong and fundamentally evil.”
Liberals
Fundies
