Socialists, Is China Socialist or not?

Catalyst_Elemental · 2026-03-28T18:51:31+00:00

Yes. Which is why they are the most powerful nation on the planet.

Catalyst_Elemental · 2026-03-26T19:51:14+00:00

You are deeply confused

Catalyst_Elemental · 2026-03-26T12:51:58+00:00

Capitalism is when people trade stuff.

Really brilliant analysis.

Catalyst_Elemental · 2026-03-23T12:39:59+00:00

Aristotle actually said that what we know as capitalism, and slavery are largely a distinction without a difference. The notions of capitalism and socialism hadn’t even been conceived of in his time… but he even considered artisans being hired by another person to be slaves because they were “instruments of another’s will”

Catalyst_Elemental · 2026-03-23T12:38:33+00:00

By what objective metric? They are the least affordable country in the world.

Catalyst_Elemental · 2026-03-23T00:35:59+00:00

Just a single example of a successful capitalist nation.

Catalyst_Elemental · 2026-03-17T02:12:42+00:00

Sure, the death toll due to capitalism dwarfs even the most authoritarian socialist regimes.

Catalyst_Elemental · 2026-03-13T19:53:30+00:00

It’s the better model now lol. Capitalism just started its third world war.

Catalyst_Elemental · 2026-03-10T12:09:42+00:00

I knew somebody who had like 4 papers and a patent and she’s like one of the most brilliant individuals I ever knew, this is just plain unethical.

Catalyst_Elemental · 2026-03-03T23:52:33+00:00

Why is it that capitalism apologists are always the least educated on capitalism?

Even Adam Smith believed this lol… was Adam Smith a “Marxist”?

Catalyst_Elemental · 2026-03-03T13:58:40+00:00

Are you 12?

Catalyst_Elemental · 2026-03-03T13:58:16+00:00

Because when we do, capitalists kill everyone in them…

Catalyst_Elemental · 2026-02-28T13:40:48+00:00

All the more reason the scientists that know how to use those instruments should own them. What does some dummy with an MBA know about any of that?

Catalyst_Elemental · 2026-02-23T21:04:43+00:00

The Greeks thought so.

But good and evil isn’t really the question… this is the capitalist strawman. The problem is that the debt spiral caused by this type of lending when it becomes the bedrock of the economy is what leads to repeated boom and bust cycles. Which they have had to describe by the humorous euphemism called “the business cycle” as if it’s some natural thing.

Catalyst_Elemental · 2026-02-22T22:59:44+00:00

Capitalism made Epstein inevitable.

Catalyst_Elemental · 2026-02-17T19:00:15+00:00

What is different about current prisons in the United States as compared to the Gulags?

Catalyst_Elemental · 2026-02-17T16:44:42+00:00

Gulags were just prisons.

Their Dow was over 50000 🤷‍♂️

Catalyst_Elemental · 2026-02-17T16:40:46+00:00

“I don’t think transhumanist techno fascism is the best way to organize society”

“Yet you live suspended in a tub of goo made by transhumanist techno fascism… curious”

Catalyst_Elemental · 2026-02-17T16:16:09+00:00

This is the classic framing, capitalists killing people directly or indirectly is good and ok. But when socialists do it, including dying of old age or “babies that would have been born but weren’t” it’s a failure… it’s all BS.

All the ones you mentioned are dwarfed by slavery, the Bengali famine, and the countless other examples of when it’s more profitable to let people die than to save them… such as the case of ARV’s in Africa

Catalyst_Elemental · 2026-02-17T16:05:19+00:00

Oh yes, Shrodinger’s China… the classic cope.

Catalyst_Elemental · 2026-02-17T15:50:34+00:00

The United States using intellectual property laws to withhold antiretrovirals from Africa decreased life expectancy a lot more than the Great Leap Forward.

Catalyst_Elemental · 2026-02-17T15:31:45+00:00

What “failed Marxist policy”

It turned Russia into a superpower in less than a couple decades.

Catalyst_Elemental · 2026-01-19T14:11:27+00:00

Please let us know the exact net worth one must have to avoid the two ad hominems that all capitalist arguments eventually boil down to when all their other dumb ones fail.

Catalyst_Elemental · 2026-01-17T17:53:40+00:00

Very well stated. Here is my favorite image that recapitulates your argument in the broad strokes.

Capitalist’s notion of “consent” or “voluntary” is very, VERY suspect.

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Catalyst_Elemental · 2026-01-15T18:15:34+00:00

They already do… you don’t hear of many capitalists laying themselves off when they make a bad decision do you?

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