Hence what I argued in this thread about the fallaciousness of the modern fairy tale of "self-sufficiency."https://twitter.com/JimbauxsJournal/status/947267073511710722 …
The greatest trick the Capitalists ever pulled was renaming "obeying the property owning class" to "freedom".
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Also, renaming "perpetual war" to "freedom isn't free", "supporting dictators" to "fighting the red menace", "imperialism" to "exporting democracy" & "daily indoctrination" to "the news". Quite the Orwellian vibe we got going here.
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The greatest trick for Communists would be to rename "socialism" to "liberty" & relabel "public ownership of the means of production" to "free market economy", but at the same time avoid becoming a fascist totalitarian state. Can it be done?
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You think without property owners we'd live in slums? Who builds houses? Capitalists or workers?
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And the entire other half of that, that, even if his job actually does some good in the world, there's no way that he'd get paid without demand. A commercial farmer is indeed an important job, but he won't make a penny unless there are non-farmers who want to eat and have money.
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I think it was in fact the creation of the right-aligned worker
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Creating the concept of race and convincing some people to oppress others over it is high on the list too
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