• Honytawk@lemmy.zip
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    1 year ago

    Communism is as much of a fairy tale as the Free Market.

    For exactly the same reasons.

    Almost like we better pick something … in the middle, like heavily regulated capitalism and social democracy.

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      1 year ago

      Full genocide now or no genocide? Those both seem pretty extreme, let’s pick from the middle and genocide some people. I am an enlightened centrist.

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        1 year ago

        There’s a logical fallacy going on here that I don’t know the name for, but basically: who says there needs to be any genocide? Why is genocide a constant present in all aspects of that spectrum?

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          1 year ago

          The logical fallacy was committed by you when you equivocated with zero support, Communism and “The Free Market.” The free market has never existed except as a thought experiment so that market economists can try to model what effects supply and demand would have on a frictionless market. It’s equivalent to physics classes where you ignore air-resistance and friction. No one claims physics is a fairy-tale and it would be absurd to claim that market economics and physics are both fairy-tales for “exactly the same reason.”

          Communism on the other hand is a well-defined and studied economic system, and aspects of that economic system exist in every country on earth.