• masquenox@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    11 days ago

    Cuba has a state,

    So you have zero evidence to back up your claim?

    you need to back that up.

    I have to back up the fact that you have no evidence to back your ridiculous claim?

    Only a rabid anti-socialist claims that a state controlling the means of production qualifies as “socialism.”

    No ifs.

    No ands.

    No buts.

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      11 days ago

      You’re deeply unserious if you think Marx doesn’t count as a socialist, and only consider late-stage communism and anarchism to be socialist.

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        11 days ago

        if you think Marx

        Marx can be forgiven for being wrong. He didn’t have an entire century’s worth of hindsight to inform him - unlike the modern-day personality cultists that claim him (like you).

        consider late-stage communism and anarchism to be socialist.

        Why do you have a problem with the working class controlling the means of production, (alleged) “socialist?”

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          Between capitalism and communism comes socialism, where the working class controls the means of production but there isn’t classless or stateless society yet. Simple. Communism doesn’t have a working class, because it’s classless.

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            where the working class controls the means of production but there isn’t classless or stateless society yet

            Ie, you understand perfectly well that your ideology precludes socialism even being possibile.

            So, again… why do you have a problem with the working class controlling the means of production?

            Perhaps that’s the wrong question?

            Maybe it should go… why do you despise the working class so much?

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              No, I’m just not of the fringe belief that a state run by the working classes where public ownership is the principle aspect of the economy is somehow capitalist. I love the working class, that’s why I support the socialist system the working classes of Cuba fought and died to establish and protect, rather than telling them that they aren’t “pure” enough while defending themselves from the US Empire.

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                that a state run by the working classes

                Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence - and you have provided zero.

                I love the working class,

                Really? Then why do you peddle an ideology that preclude the very possibility of the working class controlling the means of production?

                Or do you “love” the working class in the same psychotic way that the aristocracy proclaimed to “love” serfs and peasants?

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                    Cuban democracy is comprehensive,

                    And?

                    Extolling the ways in which the Cuban state manages electoral processes is supposed to prove… what?

                    public ownership

                    You seem to be assuming that the word “public” is going to be doing all the heavy lifting for you. It’s not.

                    Does the cuban state control the means of production in Cuba or does it not?