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539 points maguay | 1 comments | 26 Aug 25 10:47 UTC | HN request time: 0.219s | source
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ModernMech ◴[26 Aug 25 13:45 UTC] No.45026492[source]▶
I don't understand how they can say Democrats are Communists while they do this. It's going to be interesting hearing everyone who spent decades spilling volumes about the evils of communism and the failure of the USSR quickly pivot to being champions of state capitalism.
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empath75 ◴[26 Aug 25 13:58 UTC] No.45026676[source]▶
I actually think the model here isn't communism, it's fascism/corporatism. They aren't nationalizing directly, they're intimidating private enterprises into compliance and cooperation.
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1. eej71 ◴[26 Aug 25 14:11 UTC] No.45026844[source]▶
One of the key features of fascism is keeping up the illusion of private property and other individual rights. When such abrogation of rights ultimately results in disasters, our intellectuals will lay the blame at the foot of capitalism without having ever really understood what it was and why the current administration is not pro-capitalist and neither is the GOP.