Cyber Ghost@lemmygrad.ml to Ask Lemmygrad@lemmygrad.ml · 10 months agoWhy do neoliberals keep calling communism, “state-capitalism”?message-squaremessage-square27fedilinkarrow-up142arrow-down11
arrow-up141arrow-down1message-squareWhy do neoliberals keep calling communism, “state-capitalism”?Cyber Ghost@lemmygrad.ml to Ask Lemmygrad@lemmygrad.ml · 10 months agomessage-square27fedilink
minus-squareProfessorOwl_PhD [any]@hexbear.netlinkfedilinkarrow-up14·10 months agoBecause they think the “capitalism” part proves it’s not socialist. Every so often a Marxist term gets noticed by libs, then adopted and diluted by their surface level understanding until it becomes functionally meaningless. See also: tankies.
minus-squareCyber Ghost@lemmygrad.mlOPlinkfedilinkarrow-up8arrow-down1·10 months agoDid Marx use the term Tankies?
minus-squareImmortanStalin@lemmygrad.mllinkfedilinkarrow-up6·10 months agoMarx through his dialectical materialism powers actually invented tanks in the 1800’s.
Because they think the “capitalism” part proves it’s not socialist. Every so often a Marxist term gets noticed by libs, then adopted and diluted by their surface level understanding until it becomes functionally meaningless. See also: tankies.
Did Marx use the term Tankies?
Marx through his dialectical materialism powers actually invented tanks in the 1800’s.