Message from @Snake
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Communism wouldn't exist without Capitalism.
Actual communist states don't proliferate Marxist thought, because it would reveal their failures in attaining the Marxist ideal
That's because Communism doesn't actually work.
Hence the amount of information control and revisionism common in those nations
@Little Boots yup
Within the eyes of an economist, Communism's fundamental flaw is the requirement for both the supply of all labor and resources to be infinitely abundant. Scarcity will never be eliminated, and even if we do eliminate scarcity within labor and resources, you still have scarcity of time.
More than that, labor theory of value is just a race to the bottom
Thus, Communism as a natural progression will never be.
Scarcity is impossible to get rid of.
All that happens is it shifts from one resource to another.
My biggest issue with communism is the fact I’m a nationalist
Back two hundred years ago, bread was a desired commodity.
Now, the scarce resource is the materials that go into making computers.
Rare earth elements or REE
Wait
I fucked that up
Rare earth minerals
REM
No
"but boots 4 gorillion people starve of every year because of capitalism"
In the near future our resource conflicts will be over alkaline battery components
@ubermensch 4 billion people starve in spite of capitalism
I know wtf I’m talking about just not the acronym used for it
Basically just metals used in electronics
Bread continues to remain scarce, as are the capital and intermediary goods requisite, as well labor, to the production, @Little Boots.
And batteries
This will always remain to be the case.
@Snake alkalines and Rare Earth Metals
Yeah that’s right
@Jeremy that is true. It's just so common in most western countries that there's little issue getting it.
It is REM
Not REE lmao
I feel like Jeremy should argue a anarcho communist
I used to do that a lot
I can't.
Argue with fucking anarcho communists
Friendly reminder that solar and wind energy will never be valid energy sources because there's not enough alkalines in the fucking planet to build enough batteries to store and distribute solar or wind power
I tend to suffer from braincell loss after those.
Trust me it’s definitely not worth your time lmao