Since it’s #mlkjr day in the US, I figured I’d share this apt quote about #socialism.
@draft13 I agree with that. There's no excuse for slavery and it has nothing to do with capitalism directly.
@iain Nothing? 🤔
@draft13 No. Slavery is about bestial greed.
@iain Indeed. I would add that greed and capitalism are pretty good friends.
@draft13 Greed and corruption are good friends with socialism too - ask Venezuelans. We could go on all night. 😜
@iain 😆 Greed, a human condition. Friends with everyone!
@moz I thought Socialism was more than just anti-capitalism.I get frustrated that so many leftists criticise capitalism without proposing anything to replace it at all - let alone anything better.
@iain I mean, the alternative schemes have been discussed to death (workers’ councils, syndicates). It’s up to us to get people to realize that there’s an alternative to capitalism in the first place.
@moz I know nothing about "workers council" or "syndicates". No one has ever mntioned them to me - seriously.If you want to persuade people to change you need to explain those alternatives instead of just criticising capitalism.
@iain people aren't even aware that capitalism is harmful in the first place. how do you propose to persuade people that change needs to happen while they don't even know what's wrong?
@moz Quite the opposite. I read almost no one defending the strengths of free markets on social media.
@iain then you don't spend much time on American Twitter. idiotic libertarians and conservatives as far as the eye can see.
@moz Well that's true. We agree there are plenty of idiot capitalists. 😂
@iain one could easily say that all capitalists are idiot capitalists, so
@moz At least some of us think with our brains not just with our hearts. 😘
@iain oh man, condescending *and* ignorant, I love it
@moz You started the insults, but then... of course you did. 🤣
@moz @iain I am ok with agreeing to disagree; yet political views aside, I fully agree that the wealth our country exists in large part to the exploitation of slaves and minorities. That truth is hard to refute.