“Democracy sustains capitalism. Capitalism thrives in a democracy. And, right now, we are dealing with, as I called him at my speech on the Ellipse, a tyrant,” she said, referencing her rally last year on the White House Ellipse in Washington. “We used to compare the strength of our democracy to communist dictators. That’s what we’re dealing with right now in Donald Trump. And these titans of industry are not speaking up,”

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    Except they have actually started seizing parts of businesses. Is that not literally communism? Honest question. Because if it’s not, I don’t know what it is.

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      It’s communism when the workers seize the means of production. The thing is, this is not a workers’ government.

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        So the split hairs is that technically it’s not communism because it’s not helping the workers?

        This really feels like “no true Scotsman”. The government that workers chose, seized the means of production. This is communism.

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          It’s not even under the illusion of communism you nonce. So no, it’s not communism.

          Might as well call Trump the real “woke librul antifa” if you don’t care about the meaning words.

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          I guess what @degen@midwest.social is trying to point at is that worker’s don’t truly control the government and so when the current government seizes the means of production it’s closer to a change of hands between different groups of capitalists than anything envisioned by communists.

          I’d also like to say that although the government has “seized” 10% of Intel shares for example it has no control over Intel’s decisions. Those shares only provide dividends.