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So I wanted to respond to the conservative reaction to this, if not to reactionaries directly, at least the few people who will actually read this. Hope this helps you argue a little better @jackcalifano/1249497113773223936Permalink On twitter.com
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Basically, the right says the coronavirus wrecking the world economy and sending millions into poverty isn't a failure of capitalism because the the slowdown was forced by state intervention and, as we all know, when the government does stuff, that's socialism. Few thingsPermalink On twitter.com
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First: the necessary slowdown in production would be necessary to stop mass death no matter what economic system we lived under. If we lived in Ancapistan we'd still have to shut the economy down to stop mass death and this would lead to adverse effects. If you want to...Permalink On twitter.com
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...admit that under your preferred economic system you'd just let the poor die so line go up that's fine I guess, but you said it not me.Permalink On twitter.com
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The fact that any instability in capitalism basically throws the bottom half of society into a death spiral, and the fact that we have these busts every 10-20 years is the critique of capitalism being leveled here. You can't just hand wave that away with "big gobment did it"Permalink On twitter.com
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Second: while the coronavirus did create some shortages of specific goods in stores, that's not the main issue here. There are still just as many houses as before. There is still enough food. There are still brave healthcare workers fighting the pandemic. The issue is...Permalink On twitter.com
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...now because a few numbers turned red on a screen in NYC, millions of people no longer have access to these things during a *global health crisis* -- the one time where everyone absolutely needs these to not die.On twitter.com
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What any leftist, be they Marxist-Leninists or democratic socialists or social democrats or anarchists or fucking posadists, is trying to say is maybe a system where people have the essentials to live and we make stuff to fill actual need instead of profit would be less shitPermalink On twitter.com
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People saying "But Venezuela!!11!!!" 100% don't understand the differences between any of the ideologies I just listed, 100% cannot actually give an accurate definition of "socialism" when asked, and 200% miss the point entirelyPermalink On twitter.com
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The good news is that the right is having to defend capitalism on our terms when they haven't had to before. That's progress if you ask mePermalink On twitter.com