• Cowbee [he/they]@lemmy.ml
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    10 hours ago

    Only taxing the rich or bringing back the New Deal perpetuates Capitalism, we are talking about Socialism here, not Social Democracy. In that respect, when we analyze AES states, all have a firm understanding of Marxist theory, showing that it indeed has practical merit.

    If you want to get started with theory, I keep an introductory Marxist-Leninist reading list you can check out if you want.

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      10 hours ago

      So?

      If the workers have a 25 hour week with universal health care and great pensions who cares if the billionaires have spaceships to Mars?

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        Considering we are speaking about the US, those safety nets would come from the massive Imperialism the US commits constantly. Workers in the Global South would continue to slave away so workers in the US can live cushy lives.

        In a Socialist system, we can end that, but under Capitalism there is no path to deliberately end the practice of Imperialism, as it forms the basis of US foreign policy, and why the US Empire has hundreds of millitary bases around the world.