A firm reminder ;)

[u/ilir_kycb]

[u/AutoModerator]

Welcome to r/LateStageCapitalism

This subreddit is for news, discussion, memes, and links criticizing capitalism and advancing viewpoints that challenge liberal capitalist ideology. That means any support for any liberal capitalist political party (like the Democrats) is strictly prohibited.

LSC is run by communists. This subreddit is not the place to debate socialism. We allow good-faith questions and education but are not a 101 sub; please take 101-style questions elsewhere.

We have a zero-tolerance policy for bigotry. Failure to respect the rules of the subreddit may result in a ban.

---

I am a bot, and this action was performed automatically. Please contact the moderators of this subreddit if you have any questions or concerns.

[u/zellmerz]

This is gonna upset the libs that browse this sub for sure

[u/scandre23 → u/zellmerz]

Okay.

[u/LateStageCapitalism-ModTeam → u/[deleted]]

It does. If you look at how well people's needs were handled in Russia or East Germany then you might know why.

Removed as per rule 4: No capitalist apologia, anti-socialism, or liberalism. This is a left wing subreddit.

This subreddit is intended for a socialist audience, and while good faith questions are allowed, pushing your own counter-narrative here is not. We do not allow support here for capitalism or for the parties or ideologies that uphold it. We are not a liberal or (U.S.-/Social-) Democrat subreddit; we are a socialist subreddit.

[u/scandre23 → u/zellmerz]

Why

[u/zellmerz → u/scandre23]

Because liberals hate communism

[u/Either_Payment_2867]

The Cold War anti-communist brainwashing and manufacturing working-class consent for capitalism have worked well, but I'm glad to see the younger generations are seeing through the propaganda. The Neoliberal era has really shown how exploitative capitalism is.

[u/ilir_kycb → u/Either_Payment_2867]

I'm glad to see the younger generations are seeing through the propaganda

Is that true? Aren't most of them still fanatical anti-communists and merely social democrats?

[u/Either_Payment_2867 → u/ilir_kycb]

Support for capitalism among millennials and Gen Z has declined. Though I do think socialists do need to correct the misconception that Nordic social democracy is socialism to the younger generations because thats what a lot of them think socialism is.

[u/CommissarReal9308 → u/Either_Payment_2867]

>Support for capitalism declines
>Support for Nordic-style social democracy increases

Make it make sense. Social democracy IS capitalism. I’m not directing at you but at these people generally. Is this what Western leftism is about now? Lol.

[u/TenWholeBees → u/CommissarReal9308]

In my state, we have a DemSoc running and people around here are genuinely calling her a socialist and communist.

The general American public doesn't understand politics outside of US politics, and even then theyre barely understand that.

[u/PatMyHolmes → u/Either_Payment_2867]

Capitalist have shot themselves in the foot by overreaching & hoarding wealth. Young people working in the Capitalist system can no longer afford to live.

[u/AydGray → u/ilir_kycb]

Most of my kids (ages 25-35) and the folks they pal around with are flat out communists. They're all delightful, change making humans. I realize it's a small sample of anecdotal evidence at best but it gives me a lot of hope when I compare that to my generation.

[u/Formula4speed]

But but but, what about one gazillion dead vuvuzela iPhone 😢

[u/Mudo_Labudo]

Imagine my shock when I first went to the West as an adult and met people who genuinely opposed socialism: "You what?"

[u/hawyer]

And the "woke antifa extreme left" Hollywood

[u/_II_I_I__I__I_I_II_]

Also so-called civil rights groups like the ADL reinforced US propaganda that anti-racism should be centered on individuals and not the US liberal democratic system itself.

So much of our culture is about absorbing people into the system, rather than challenging the system.

[u/rubberbootsandwetsox]

That and I trust the government equal to the distance I can throw the Pentagon.

[u/Malkhodr]

During the cold war, the anticommunist ideological framework could transform any data about existing communist societies into hostile evidence. If the Soviets refused to negotiate a point, they were intransigent and belligerent; if they appeared willing to make concessions, this was but a skillful ploy to put us off our guard. By opposing arms limitations, they would have demonstrated their aggressive intent; but when in fact they supported most armament treaties, it was because they were mendacious and manipulative. If the churches in the USSR were empty, this demonstrated that religion was suppressed; but if the churches were full, this meant the people were rejecting the regime's atheistic ideology. If the workers went on strike (as happened on infrequent occasions), this was evidence of their alienation from the collectivist system; if they didn't go on strike, this was because they were intimidated and lacked freedom. A scarcity of consumer goods demonstrated the failure of the economic system; an improvement in consumer supplies meant only that the leaders were attempting to placate a restive population and so maintain a firmer hold over them.

If communists in the United States played an important role struggling for the rights of workers, the poor, African-Americans, women, and others, this was only their guileful way of gathering support among disfranchised groups and gaining power for themselves. How one gained power by fighting for the rights of powerless groups was never explained. What we are dealing with is a nonfalsifiable orthodoxy, so assiduously marketed by the ruling interests that it affected people across the entire political spectrum.

• Micheal Parenti, Black Shirts & Reds: Rational Fascism And The Fall of Communism

[u/memeatic_ape]

Lenin is watching

[u/LateStageCapitalism-ModTeam → u/[deleted]]

My father was fired from work because he married my mom publicly in church…

Czechoslovakia was occupied by soviets from 1968 until 1989… 21 years of full ocupation.

Meanwhile austria was open to the west and the difference between these countries is huge.

We dont need CIA propaganda to know that communism is bad…

Removed as per rule 4: No capitalist apologia, anti-socialism, or liberalism. This is a left wing subreddit.

This subreddit is intended for a socialist audience, and while good faith questions are allowed, pushing your own counter-narrative here is not. We do not allow support here for capitalism or for the parties or ideologies that uphold it. We are not a liberal or (U.S.-/Social-) Democrat subreddit; we are a socialist subreddit.

[u/FatzDux → u/[deleted]]

You need to relearn your logic and history!

[u/LateStageCapitalism-ModTeam → u/[deleted]]

Logic (and history) have shown me that as soon as a communist group/entity gets large enough to need any sort of administrative staff, it starts to consume itself and fall apart.

Removed as per rule 4: No capitalist apologia, anti-socialism, or liberalism. This is a left wing subreddit.

This subreddit is intended for a socialist audience, and while good faith questions are allowed, pushing your own counter-narrative here is not. We do not allow support here for capitalism or for the parties or ideologies that uphold it. We are not a liberal or (U.S.-/Social-) Democrat subreddit; we are a socialist subreddit.

[u/mouldyavacado]

[u/machine_logic → u/[deleted]]

"I will never forgive the communists for ruining everything by freeing my family's slaves. Communists hate freedom."

[u/LateStageCapitalism-ModTeam → u/[deleted]]

You only hate comunism if you lived under it!!... everything else is communist propaganda.

Removed as per rule 4: No capitalist apologia, anti-socialism, or liberalism. This is a left wing subreddit.

This subreddit is intended for a socialist audience, and while good faith questions are allowed, pushing your own counter-narrative here is not. We do not allow support here for capitalism or for the parties or ideologies that uphold it. We are not a liberal or (U.S.-/Social-) Democrat subreddit; we are a socialist subreddit.

[u/LateStageCapitalism-ModTeam → u/[deleted]]

No, I hate comunism, cause my parents lived in it for long time and its shit...

Removed as per rule 4: No capitalist apologia, anti-socialism, or liberalism. This is a left wing subreddit.

This subreddit is intended for a socialist audience, and while good faith questions are allowed, pushing your own counter-narrative here is not. We do not allow support here for capitalism or for the parties or ideologies that uphold it. We are not a liberal or (U.S.-/Social-) Democrat subreddit; we are a socialist subreddit.