• Grayox@lemmy.mlOP
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      So you’re saying you’d rather have Corporations and Billionaires continue to rob the working class?

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        I’d rather my worker’s rights didn’t come with a side of authoritarianism, but maybe that’s just me.

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          There is nothing authoritarian about workers owning the means of production, and for the record you live under the authority of Capital everyday.

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            You’ll be hard pressed to have your average person online casually use the Engelian type use of authority in authoritarian. The authority of work or authority of capital isn’t what they’re thinking. What is being imagined is almost always despotic tyranny.

            Same thing with dictatorship. Most people will see that word and not associate it with a philosophical concept that includes a kind of rule by a class of citizens. They’ll use it synonymous to despotic tyranny.

            Outside .ml at least, and especially on .world.

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            lemmy.ml is run by marxist-leninists (hence the .ml), which is an explicitly authoritarian ideology, and for the record trading one form of authoritarianism for another is not a worthwhile improvement.

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              Yes it is, because authoritarianism isn’t the end goal of ML. You readily acknowledge that we currently live under an authoritarian Capitalist system, can you tell me what the end goal of this system even is? I mean most workers are one missed paycheck away from homelessness. While vast sums of wealth are horded by the top 1% of society with the only end goal being more wealth being extracted from the working class, with no actual goal besides more profit and greater wealth. The end goal of Marxist-Leninism is a classes society where each person contributes what they can to society and receives back what they need to live a fulfilling life. They are extremely different.

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                Alright, firstly, I think you’re mistaking me as advocating for capitalism. I’m not. Whilst I’m not a fan of labels (they’re so easily contorted away from their original meanings by those seeking to undermine the ideologies they describe), I believe “Socialist” would reasonably describe my beliefs.

                Secondly,

                […]authoritarianism isn’t the end goal of ML.

                I think you’ve got that backwards. Marxism-Leninism starts with democratic means, then implements an authoritarian regime.

                […]can you tell me what the end goal of this system even is?

                No, because there isn’t one. Capitalism actively punishes any form of forethought or long-term planning.

                […]The end goal of Marxist-Leninism is a classes society where each person contributes what they can to society and receives back what they need to live a fulfilling life. They are extremely different.

                In theory, maybe. Just like in theory Capitalism self regulates through competitive pressures, or whatever nonsense it is that Capitalists spout.

                I’m more concerned with actual effects, and empirical evidence than hypotheticals. Authoritarian regimes invariably turn oppressive, one way or another.

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                  Capitalism does not self regulate, it consolidates. You should try reading Marx and Lenin’s actual writings, you seem very earnest and dont come off as a troll. There are multiple free audio recordings on YouTube of their works. Humanity must escape the all powerful driving forces of the profit motives Capitalism enforces or perish off the face of this earth. That process if it is to take place will appear extremely authoritarian to those who value profit above all else.

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                    Capitalism does not self regulate[…]

                    Correct, hence “In theory” and “nonsense” in the words surrounding that phrase.

                    You should try reading Marx and Lenin’s actual writings[…]

                    I certainly would like to read at bare minimum some of Marx’s works, but ADHD is really not conducive to being able to read even mildly long texts, like I couldn’t even get all the way through Einstein’s Why Socialism?.

                    There are multiple free audio recordings[…]

                    Audio is even worse on that front, as I’ll end repeatedly tuning parts out and have to go back and listen to those parts again, which just isn’t good for motivation.

                    […]you seem very earnest[…]

                    I like to think so at least. I just don’t like when people fall into the “A is bad, B opposes A, therefore B is good” trap.

                    Humanity must escape the all powerful driving forces of the profit motives Capitalism enforces[…]

                    Agreed. Wholeheartedly.

                    That process if it is to take place will appear extremely authoritarian to those who value profit above all else.

                    They may attempt to paint it as such, but it need not actually be so. Even if that process were to take the form of a violent revolution (which, to be clear it doesn’t need to.)

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              I don’t know where that idea came from but the .ml doesn’t stand for marxist-leninist, those domains are simply free