RE: Cryptocurrency is Communist: The Brainwash Effect.
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I appreciate your engagement, even though I disagree. My apologies if I came across rude. So let me try again.
Do you think that communism is "bad".
I don't think communism is bad. I think it's horrendous, as history has already shown us. Millions and millions of lives destroyed and incredible suffering for the rest. I appreciate that you mention that China's system is not really communism as theorized by Karl Marx, but it is the inevitable outcome that perhaps Marx, a product of the industrial revolution, did not foresee.
we're all being told it's bad constantly over the course of our entire lives. This is propaganda. This is brainwashing.
Many people think communism is bad because we have seen or experienced what happens under the yoke of communism. The idea of brainwashing is not just a semantic concept but a suggestion that someone was passively programmed into a particular set of beliefs, presumably because they lack the intelligence or will to think for themselves. Right or left, we all carry versions of reality based on social/cultural conditioning, neurological imprinting, and genetics. This sounds nerdy, but it's more nuanced and nudges us to better understand the environmental and neurological mechanisms underpinning a belief of those we disagree with.
All that matters is that communities need to retake control of the means of production in addition to currency itself.
The problem with Karl Marx's 'communism' is precisely that he called for the taking over the "means of production." In his time, the means of production were the tangible factories and labor that went along with it. But since then, we have learned that the source of wealth is not the means of production, or capital as Adams espoused, but information, knowledge, and cybernetic feedback. In other words, the source of wealth is the neuro-digital brain and its interaction with other brains.
It doesn't matter what we call it. That's just semantics. What matters is freedom.
Semantics are important. Memes like "means of production", "worker's revolution", "bourgeoisie", "one percent", "democratic republic of..." and so on can be powerful viral ideas that are either limiting or expanding. The concepts derived from communism appear expanding in theory ("you have nothing to lose but your chains") but in practice, they quickly turn into self-limiting and oppressive beliefs.
You mentioned anarcho-capitalism. This is something different than communism. I'm afraid I have no opinion on it.
Communism and freedom are not mutually exclusive concepts.
Not in theory, but at the end of the road, communism puts all of us in chains. After all, you have to do what is good for the community or else...
I appreciate that you have brought up this topic. I don't discuss politics on Hive, but this one did trigger me, and perhaps that's a good thing, though my approach could have been better.
I apologize for my crankiness. I don't have any weed left, so that may have contributed to my terseness.
lol @ no weed.
I think I usually beat most people at the rudeness game.
I doubt you have anything to worry about on that front.
But I would like to reiterate that decentralized communism is anarcho-capitalism.
So again we are just not talking about the same thing.
Here is where the banksters used marx to split the workingman's movement and to coopt the term communism to paint it as what it isn't.
Marx wanted violent overthrow and rule by force, Bakunin did not.
Bakunin. Man, I just had a flashback reading that name. hehe!
Wow you drank the propaganda koolaid as well. mentioning something like venezuela? if it was communism maduro and his rich friends wouldn't exist how they do, lol. they wouldn't need all that stuff they got and money and power , lol. those are more like capitalistic republic dictatorships..almost like what america is with a ruling class that's gaining everything off the backs of everyone else. that's not socialism and communism. they say it is but they faill to mention all the extras that make it something else. like my example earlier.. everyone in america says this is capitalism. now funny enough they don't say it works, lol. however they call it still capitalism.. when it's really neofeudalism. so you don't know what you talking about.
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Russia- not communism. Lol.
China- not communism. Lol.
Cuba- not communism. Lol.
Vietnam- not communism. Lol.
North Korea- not communism. Lol.
Laos- not communism. Lol.
Venezuela- not communism. Lol.
See a pattern? Come on, man. This is why I don't discuss politics on Hive. So, let's just be friends and drink some kool-aid. It'll be fun.
Well in the concept of communism and socialism i thought the people control the resources, lol. So how is it that you got super rich people in these countries? Shouldn't it be a little more even? lol. you got someone like putin who's a trillionaire, haha.. and every person in those countries that ran such systems what you call communism, that's not what most people define it as. however how you define it, that's how it works. So how is it that they can store away so much wealth without raising flags, i don't understand that, lol.
You can do it easy in the west because if you call something capitalism. It's a free pass to basically manipulate the system and steal peoples wealth and resources. Like some say well just look at the example of the united states. it got here under capitlalism. Well as i understood it it got here by having an atom bomb lol.
Germany was really close to getting the atom bomb first they were just slack on resources. nothing was wrong with their work ethic or incentive, lol. They had the best scientist of the time, lol. So we can be friends but friends don't lie to one another lol. How is it that we got all these super poor people and most of the people being poor in these idealistic communist countries you talking about but they got tons of resources, lol.. like venezuela it's full of oil. america has an embargo on it and all that lol. .so it's military reasons and systems also keeping these systems from working lol.
its interference, its' war its the brettenwood agreement where the us dollar becomes the reserve currency based on war not they masterminded some great system lol. yea friend, you need to tell a more complete story. if anyone really wants to decentralize a thing. that's easy do it through the money, lol. that doesn't mean making sure it falls in the hands of who you want it to fall into, lol. let it fall into the people hands who own it and inherit the earth that's where it belongs anyway, lol. everyonne is so eager to create systems they can get an edge and spend all day trading which is another way to spend yoru day stealing money from one another all day long. that's all trading really accomplishes, lol. so how bout that friend? have you thought about that? lol
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