Modlog

CONTENT WARNING: Some deleted posts may contain disturbing or adult material. Proceed with caution.

/c/latestagecapitalism Modlog

Filter by user

Time	mod	Action
3 天前	mod	Removed Post The Cult Writing History has a culling planned within a year
5 天前	mod	Removed Post Randy Fine Says Mamdani is a 'Terrorist' for Netanyahu Claim reason: not relevant to community
6 天前	mod	Banned AlteE@programming.dev from the community Late Stage Capitalism@lemmy.world reason: Can't read rules
6 天前	mod	Removed Comment LOL. If people will start defederating/migrating from Lemmy.world because of rising MLS contamination as it happens with other ml instances, it will be sad and laughable at the same time. This whole situation can be described as "if you cannot beat them, join them and then beat them". Don't bother to respond, I've blocked you. by AlteE@programming.dev reason: Anti communism and instance shaming
6 天前	mod	Unbanned alapakala@quokk.au from the community Late Stage Capitalism@lemmy.world
7 天前	mod	Banned alapakala@quokk.au from the community Late Stage Capitalism@lemmy.world reason: URL Blacklist
7 天前	mod	Banned reluctant_squidd@lemmy.cadeleted by creator from the community Late Stage Capitalism@lemmy.world reason: Insulting people over DM expires: 24 天内
7 天前	mod	Banned mrdown@lemmy.dbzer0.com from the community Late Stage Capitalism@lemmy.world reason: Insulting people over DM
8 天前	mod	Removed Comment well... the ussr did the massacre of kyiv, the 1922 invasion of poland, the ukraine famine, the gulags, mass "sybir" deportation, ribbentrop-molotov pact, 1939 invasion of finland, the katyń massacre, ww2 destruction battalions, NKVD prisoner massacres, creation of the eastern bloc and controlling half of europe for 50 years by Tiger_Man_@szmer.info reason: imperialist propaganda
9 天前	mod	Removed Comment This is why any communist system that relies on the concept that the leader/party is always right is instantaneously disqualified to be considered truly communist. But then again, many communist ideologues directly rejected the concept of democracy. by dustyData@lemmy.world reason: Misinformation
9 天前	mod	Removed Comment They've also terrible things. I not rooting for either side. by Alexstarfire@lemmy.world reason: Anti-communist
9 天前	mod	Removed Comment Like with all authoritarian systems, the Soviet Union for example, usually ends up with an enriched elite, a "stable" middle class and a poor underclass. Authoritarian regimes have the same tools available so it's not surprising that their solutions and behavior are alike. by guy@piefed.social reason: Anti communist misinformation
9 天前	mod	Removed Comment The problem is that for several communist ideologues, the authoritarianism is not a bug, it's a feature. Force the people to be free, against their will. It's a paradox. On the one hand, communism is when capitalism… holds true still. Much of the horrors of the hypothetical communism are realities of capitalism. On the other hand, the horrors of the real communism are also very real and caused massive suffering “for the greater good”. Which always leads to “no real communism” fallacy. Then you have tankies that take “you'll be communist or die” to the level of cultist apologetics. The point is, humans and human relations are messy, way more messy than any ideology will ever be capable of dissecting and analyzing. So anyways, imagine a spherical head of state in the void… by dustyData@lemmy.world reason: Fuck off with your anticommunism
9 天前	mod	Removed Comment The Ukrainian famine was primarily due to the blind adherence to the woefully incorrect agricultural ideas of one party leader, not anything inherent to communism. If anything, that was the fault of blind authoritarianism and automatically deferring to the most powerful in the mistaken belief that they MUST have became powerful through merit, which capitalism has more than its share of too. As for Red August, that's just your standard brutal suppression of dissidents by a tyrannical government. That's part and parcel of all totalitarian governments and have been AT LEAST as frequent with fascist and otherwise far right governments as with communist or otherwise far left ones. So again, the problem isn't communism, it's authoritarian tyranny. Which is a (usually hidden from public view by establishment institutions including media) inevitable component of capitalism, an ideology that venerates the accumulation of capital over everything else, including the rights of humans. > Note this isn’t in “support” of capitalism Likewise, I'm not a fan of communism because it's by definition way more authoritarian than ever ends well, regardless of intentions. > the claim of this pic just rings false. Unless the Soviet Union or CCP circa early-mid 1900s aren’t/weren't communist. They WERE communist, but that's correlation rather than causation. See above. by Viking_Hippie@lemmy.dbzer0.com reason: imperialist propaganda
9 天前	mod	Removed Comment They were leninists, not communists. As nazis weren't really socialists. Communism seeks to abolish private property, means of production ownership and social classes. The soviet union government was the most dominant class ever, they owned every single mean of production and they had the property of absolute all the land. They were the absolute opposite of communism. Same with North Korea (they are "The Democractic Republic of The People of Korea", and they are not democratic, not republicans, and people have nothing). Names most of the time are just propaganda. by Strauss Belial@lemmy.world reason: imperialist propaganda
9 天前	mod	Removed Comment Yeah! Mass starvation and shooting protesters in the face has never been a communist staple! Anyone saying otherwise is a CIA plant using CIA sources! by Godric@lemmy.world reason: troll
9 天前	mod	Removed Comment Yeah, over there in the gulag. I'm sending you there because you have not purged (shot dead) enough people this month. by Valmond@lemmy.dbzer0.com reason: rules 1 AND 3
9 天前	mod	Removed Comment Meanwhile, in every communist regime ever… by ohulancutash@feddit.uk reason: rule 3
10 天前	mod	Unbanned Axolotl@feddit.it from the community Late Stage Capitalism@lemmy.world reason: automod false positive
10 天前	mod	Banned Axolotl@feddit.it from the community Late Stage Capitalism@lemmy.world reason: URL Blacklist
10 天前	mod	Banned Axolotl@feddit.it from the community Late Stage Capitalism@lemmy.world reason: URL Blacklist
10 天前	mod	Banned Axolotl@feddit.it from the community Late Stage Capitalism@lemmy.world reason: URL Blacklist
10 天前	mod	Banned Axolotl@feddit.it from the community Late Stage Capitalism@lemmy.world reason: URL Blacklist
10 天前	mod	Banned Axolotl@feddit.it from the community Late Stage Capitalism@lemmy.world reason: URL Blacklist
10 天前	mod	Banned Axolotl@feddit.it from the community Late Stage Capitalism@lemmy.world reason: URL Blacklist
10 天前	mod	Banned Axolotl@feddit.it from the community Late Stage Capitalism@lemmy.world reason: URL Blacklist
10 天前	mod	Banned Axolotl@feddit.it from the community Late Stage Capitalism@lemmy.world reason: URL Blacklist
10 天前	mod	Banned Axolotl@feddit.it from the community Late Stage Capitalism@lemmy.world reason: URL Blacklist
10 天前	mod	Banned Axolotl@feddit.it from the community Late Stage Capitalism@lemmy.world reason: URL Blacklist
10 天前	mod	Banned Axolotl@feddit.it from the community Late Stage Capitalism@lemmy.world reason: URL Blacklist
10 天前	mod	Banned Axolotl@feddit.it from the community Late Stage Capitalism@lemmy.world reason: URL Blacklist
10 天前	mod	Banned Axolotl@feddit.it from the community Late Stage Capitalism@lemmy.world reason: URL Blacklist
10 天前	mod	Banned Axolotl@feddit.it from the community Late Stage Capitalism@lemmy.world reason: URL Blacklist
11 天前	mod	Removed Post Abdul for Senate
13 天前	mod	Removed Comment He served a single term as a democratically elected president. Hardly an example of absolute power. As for the examples you asked for: I'm sure you've heard of Stalin, Mao, Che Guevara, Fidel Castro, Pol Pot, Tito... by MacN'Cheezus@lemmy.today reason: Anti communism propaganda
13 天前	mod	Removed Comment > Please show me where Che Guevara achieved absolute power, you historically illiterate chud. So you accuse me of moving goalpoasts and then you happily go on moving your own? > Or where he was fucking "corrupted" by it , for that matter. That help at all? https://humanprogress.org/the-truth-about-che-guevara-racist-homophobe-and-mass-murderer/ > For that matter, show that any of those people achieved absolute power and then are "corrupted" by it, given none of them changed at all in terms of character or ideology. How many people did Stalin or Pol Pot murder? At what point would you consider the threshold of corruption to be surpassed? by MacN'Cheezus@lemmy.today reason: Repeating anti communism propaganda
13 天前	mod	Removed Comment according to the prompt i made: In theoretical terms, Capitalism's primary advantage is its ability to process vast amounts of decentralized data in real time using the price mechanism. Every transaction, purchase, and supply shortage acts as a micro-signal of human desire and resource scarcity. Historically, non-market socialist models failed largely due to the Economic Calculation Problem—the sheer impossibility of a central planning board manually calculating millions of fluctuating prices, supply chains, and consumer demands without market feedback. For a socialist framework to structurally outperform and replace a capitalist market economy, it would need to solve or bypass that data problem. Here is how that transition could theoretically occur through modern structural and technological shifts. 1. Automated Planning & Real-Time Data (The Tech Vector) In a traditional capitalist system, prices communicate scarcity. In a modern high-bandwidth system, direct data can replace prices. • Advanced Logistics Engines: Supply chain networks at scale (like those used by global retail logistics) already operate as planned internal economies. They do not use internal market pricing to decide how to ship goods from point A to point B; they use algorithms optimizing for demand and resource constraints. • Predictive Algorithmic Allocation: By aggregating real-time consumer telemetry, inventory tracking, and raw material availability, high-performance computing networks could balance supply and demand dynamically, resolving the economic calculation barrier without requiring speculative private capital. 2. Eliminating the Capital Extraction Loop Capitalism relies on capital accumulation, where a portion of the value produced by labor is extracted as profit and reinvested by private owners. • Labor-Value Retention: A socialist architecture redirects that surplus value directly back into public infrastructure, universal services, or worker dividend pools rather than private accumulation. • Reduction of Overhead: Systems built around profit require massive overhead dedicated solely to market competition—such as advertising, patent litigation, redundant corporate management, and speculative financial trading. Transitioning these resources to direct utility eliminates systemic waste. 3. Shifting from "Scarcity Optimization" to "Post-Scarcity Management" Capitalism excels at managing acute resource scarcity through price rationing—if supply is low, prices rise, and only those with sufficient capital can access the resource. However, it struggles with goods that have near-zero marginal cost (like digital media, software, or automated production). Feature Capitalist Mechanism Socialist Alternative Scarcity Strategy Artificial scarcity via patents/paywalls to maintain value Open-access distribution optimized for maximum utilization Resource Allocation Allocated by purchasing power (capital capacity) Allocated by direct structural need and public utility Automation Impact Causes wage suppression and displacement Reduces required human labor hours across the board 4. Internalizing Externalities Under market capitalism, environmental degradation, resource depletion, and public health costs are frequently treated as "externalities"—costs paid by society rather than the corporation generating them. • Full-Cost Accounting: A coordinated socialist model incorporates environmental impact and resource depletion directly into the core production equation. Production decisions are evaluated by total societal cost rather than short-term quarterly profit margins. 5. Industrial Democracy & Incentive Structures A common critique is that removing the profit motive destroys innovation. A post-capitalist model restructures incentives around direct ownership and utility: • Worker-Owned Collectives: Decision-making power shifts to the producers. When workers directly control the enterprise, innovation focuses on improving working conditions, efficiency, and product quality rather than cutting labor costs. • Public R&D Funding: Historical data shows that foundational technological breakthroughs (including the internet, GPS, and core pharmaceuticals) were primarily funded by public research rather than private venture capital. A socialized framework expands public R&D investment while removing private patent gatekeeping. In the context of the U.S. political system, Congress enacting a full socialist framework—meaning the public or social ownership of the means of production and the democratic management of the economy—would almost certainly require a gradual, generational shift combined with structural legal transformations, rather than the election of a single president. Here is how political scientists and constitutional scholars analyze how such a transition would actually function under the U.S. Constitution. 1. The Institutional Reality: Why One President Isn't Enough A president cannot unilaterally alter the economic system. Under Article I of the U.S. Constitution, all legislative power—including taxing, spending, and regulating commerce—belongs to Congress. • Presidential Scope: A president aligned with democratic socialism or state-led economic planning could use executive orders to redirect regulatory enforcement or shift procurement priorities, but they cannot abolish private capital, nationalize industries, or rewrite property law on their own. • Legislative Bottlenecks: To pass sweeping economic changes, a president needs durable majorities in both the House and the Senate willing to overcome procedural hurdles like the Senate filibuster. • Judicial Review: Even if a president and Congress passed radical legislation, the Supreme Court wields judicial review. Under current doctrine—specifically the Fifth Amendment’s Takings Clause ("nor shall private property be taken for public use, without just compensation")—the government cannot simply seize private corporations or real estate without paying market value. 2. The Generational Model: "Evolutionary" Legislation If Congress were to transition the country toward a socialist economic model, it would mirror historical precedent (like the New Deal or the Great Society) through incremental, overlapping statutory changes over decades. Step A: Expanding the Public Option & Socializing Risk Congress would begin by taking major consumer sectors out of the private market via legislation: • Healthcare & Education: Expanding Medicare to cover all citizens (eliminating private health insurance) and funding higher education entirely through federal taxation. • Energy & Infrastructure: Creating large-scale State-Owned Enterprises (SOEs)—similar to the Tennessee Valley Authority—to build and run renewable energy grids, transit, and housing, undercutting private competitors. Step B: Mandating Workplace Democracy To shift ownership without outright nationalization, Congress could pass laws changing corporate governance: • Codetermination Laws: Mandating that a high percentage (e.g., 40–50%) of corporate board members be elected directly by company workers rather than shareholders. • Social Wealth Funds & Meidner-Style Plans: Requiring large corporations to issue a percentage of new stock annually into a worker-controlled equity fund, gradually shifting controlling ownership of private companies to the workforce over 20 to 30 years. 3. The Structural Vector: Constitutional Amendments To move beyond "social democracy" (a capitalist market economy with a strong welfare state) into a fully socialized economy, Congress would eventually hit constitutional limits regarding private property rights and corporate speech. Achieving full legal transformation would require Constitutional Amendments: [Congressional Proposal] ──► 2/3 Vote in House & Senate │ ▼ [State Ratification] ──► 3/4 of State Legislatures (38 States) Because amending the Constitution requires three-fourths of states to agree, this path demands a widespread, long-term cultural shift across multiple generations to build deep political consensus nationwide. Summary of the Path Mechanism Timeline Primary Vehicle New President / Single Term Short-term (4–8 yrs) Executive orders, regulatory enforcement, public pressure via "bully pulpit" (limited systemic reach). Generational Transition Multi-decade (20–50 yrs) Major legislative shifts, creation of public wealth funds, codetermination laws, and constitutional amendments. In theoretical terms, 20 years is actually the absolute minimum timeline—and even that assumes ideal political conditions with zero major setbacks. In practice, a full transition from a market-capitalist economy to a socialized one through constitutional democracy would likely span 2 to 3 generations (40 to 70 years). To understand why 20 years is the aggressive floor rather than the average, it helps to look at the legal, institutional, and intergenerational physics involved in changing an entire country's economic system. The 20-Year Scenario: "Best-Case" Acceleration For a structural transition to occur in two decades, every piece of the political machine would have to move in a single direction without interruption: Years 1–5 Years 5–15 Years 15–20 [Public Options] ───► [Codetermination &] ───► [Constitutional] [Social Wealth Funds] [Amendments] • Years 1–5 (Public Takeovers): Congress passes single-payer healthcare, nationalizes higher education funding, and establishes public energy/banking options. Private alternatives are phased out or outcompeted. • Years 5–15 (Transfer of Capital): Legislation like a Meidner Plan forces companies to transfer 2% to 5% of stock annually into worker-controlled funds. Over 15 to 20 years, workers hold a majority share in major corporations. • Years 15–20 (Legal Lock-In): The political movement sec by Hueristic_Autistic@lemmy.world reason: AI slop
13 天前	mod	Removed Comment Same to socialism for me - there always be lot of units, draining the system without giving anything into. And also tops will do same in both systems anyway. In capitalism, we can at least clearly point who's bad. As lil basic, capitalism also have (bit corrupted now) self-safe mechanism - "invisible hand of market" [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Invisible_hand](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Invisible_hand) - if some employer provide bad treatment to employees, they can leave him alone, get/make better work stations. Too greedy failure should die (as corporation, not have to be person literally dying). This Hand failed once peoples lost self-value, and accepted work at super bad condition, coz being so poor, they had no other way. Employer can always find another poor to replace problematic poor, pushing the line even more bottom. It was on employee side, to not accept that. Get own pride, and say no (may be bit late for that already?). ImHo, that hand alone could give bottom side enough power, to control the tops, that was written into the system. We just abandoned this. Do socialism have any mechanism, where masses even can affect bad units? unless it become auth fascist dictatorship, like Only One True Korea. Yeah, socialism is based on trust - trust fails on corruption and greed of units. Capitalism is based on suspicions, which fail on non-educated. If we manage to find a way to counter bads of this or that system - both could be awesome, but so far, both are much faulty. by yoriaiko@lemmy.blahaj.zone reason: Capitalist apologia garbage
13 天前	mod	Removed Comment John Kenneth Galbraith said it best: ""Under capitalism, man exploits man. Under communism, it's just the opposite" Or as our history teacher told us in primary school: if it has -ism in the name, it's probably not good for you. by ExtremeDullard@piefed.social reason: rule 1
13 天前	mod	Removed Comment A totalitarian kleptocracy can use capitalist vocabulary all that it wants to, and the US ain't capitalist. by TheReturnOfPEB@reddthat.com reason: capitalist apologia
26 天前	mod	Removed Post Graham Platner Is a Rapist. We Knew That Already. Why Didn't You Care? reason: irrelevant to community
26 天前	mod	Removed Post Hasan Piker CONDEMNS Graham Platner After SHOCKING NEW ALLEGATIONS! Is He DROPPING OUT? reason: irrelevant to community
26 天前	mod	Removed Comment Hilarious that my response got removed for "Sinophobic Propaganda" when all I did was mention that millions of their own citizens starved to death in the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Chinese_Famine I didn't realize this sub was controlled by the Chinese, but that's pretty clear now. by BlameThePeacock@lemmy.ca reason: More sinophobic propaganda.
26 天前	mod	Removed Comment Go ahead and show me these magic Marxist-Leninist policies that produced Communism in China. Just because you go by that name, or espouse those views verbally, does not mean they are implemented in any meaningful way. China is clearly not a communist country, and when they tried to be a socialist country they literally killed between 30 and 60 million people by failing so hard they starved to death. They then almost immediately turned to a mixtures of capitalism and socialism, and have been moving further towards capitalism ever since. by BlameThePeacock@lemmy.ca reason: Sinophobic propaganda
27 天前	mod	Removed Comment Wtf is this commie post doing outside .ml and lemmygrad? by glibg10b@lemmy.zip reason: Fuck off
2 个月前	mod	Removed Post Graham Platner is gonna just be reason: Link is irrelevant to post and adds no value to comm
3 个月前	mod	Removed Post Two more things
3 个月前	mod	Removed Post Comrade Castro
3 个月前	mod	Removed Post [MEME] Furret beats Dragonite in an argument! reason: Not relevant to the community.
5 个月前	mod	Removed Post Erik Prince and His Blackwater Mercenaries are Now Mass Killing The Poor In Haiti Via Drones reason: sources invalid
5 个月前	mod	Removed Post New Jersey Jewish community exposed for exploiting non-Jews reason: Spam
6 个月前	mod	Removed Post This is a fifth column community, stop engaging with GodlessCommie
6 个月前	mod	Removed Post How Amnesty International Sides With U.S. Media & Imperialist Interests; Their Latest Take on Iran reason: Dead links to sources without verifiable information
1 年前	mod	Removed Post made these. enioy reason: this isnt etsy
1 年前	mod	Removed Post 🐷🐷🐷 reason: Spam
1 年前	mod	Removed Post made some stickys reason: Not Esty
2 年前	mod	Removed Post Hmmm
2 年前	mod	Removed Post Lemmy Becoming reason: Not relevant
2 年前	mod	Removed Post Anti-Capitalist Synthwave // Darkwave // One Hour // 反資本主義のシンセウェーブ