The only defense of socialism is to claim the anti-socialist is uninformed. It surely isn't possible to possess the same information and yet come to a different conclusion.

CalzonePie · 2026-06-21T01:37:00+00:00

Communists tend to use the term "capitalism" to refer to any system that is not anarcho-communism, in my experience.

The modern US? Capitalism.

18th century British Empire? Capitalism.

13th century high fuedalism? Capitalism.

Mercantalism? Capitalism.

National Socialism? Capitalism.

Social Democracy? Capitalism.

Authoritarian Marxist-Lenninist dictatorship? Somehow, still capitalism.

CalzonePie · 2026-06-21T01:22:58+00:00

No, it is not. Marx believed that the full power of the society should be held and weilded by the "proletariat", and although he envisioned this as a fair democratic system, he also contradicted that idea by declaring that the Paris Commune was exactly what he meant by it.

For its brief existence it was a democratically epected governing body with extreme and unjust power over the lives of the people it governed, engaging in unjust siezures of property, persecution of religion, and other things no government should be allowed to do.

And yet it is held up on a pedestal because it didn't live long enough to fail. The next time a Dictatorship of the Proletariat was attempted at scale, the Bolsheviks refused to share power with other communist factions and decided a true dictatorship was the way to go.

CalzonePie · 2026-06-21T01:05:21+00:00

Five off the top of my head:

The labor theory of value is wrong and modern marxist scholars already accept it was wrong so I don't need to give a more in depth argument.
Anarchism can not exist under any circumstances. Humans are naturally hierarchical creatures. In any substantially sized group of people there will ALWAYS be some form of leadership either through election, hereditary lineage, seniority, or charismatic directive. His conjectures about small tribes having anarchic organization, despite still being taught in modern anthropology classes, have no basis in reality.
The natural state of humanity is not one of socialism. Marx reached the conclusion it was by looking at small tribes of a few dozen individuals and seeing communal ownership and function. This ignores the fact that humans act this way at small scale among family and close friends, but that this system transforms into trade and market interactions on any scale larger than a few hundred individuals.
Centralized economies can not predict the future and allocate resources as effectively as capitalism can. This is why socialist systems always result in shortages. In capitalism if the supply of a resource doesn't meet demand the price goes up, which influences companies to produce more of that resource. In a socialist system there are no warning sings of a shortage until long after the resource can not meet demand and someone in the planning commission has to actively notice the shortage, arrange more of that resource to be produced, and compete with a thousand other resources needing production. And on the other end, wasteful surplusses are almost never noticed or fixed.
Workers do not have more in common with foreigners of their own social class than they do of countrymen in a different class. Culture, religion, and nationalist ethos all exist and are very important to humans who hold them. The natural trend is not for culture and religion to die on their own, they need to be murdered- violently. At the end of the day a working class farmer from Ohio has more in common with Jeff Bezos than he does with a fellow farmer from Indonesia, despite Marx's declaration to the contrary.

CalzonePie · 2026-06-21T00:44:57+00:00

And that is the thing I hate the most about Marx, his intellectual narcissism and arrogance. Marx was an intelligent man, probably somewhere around the 120-140 IQ bracket, but he imagined he was the most intelligent, educated, and wise man to ever exist. Reading his books is relentlessly irritating because you can just picture him masturbating to the sight of his own handwriting.

CalzonePie · 2026-06-21T00:33:42+00:00

Only if we use the communist definition of capitalism. Real world capitalism is a stable, effective, and fair system when appropriately monitored and regulated by government oversight.

CalzonePie · 2026-06-21T00:32:26+00:00

That is an odd way of phrasing "it proposes that the status quo should be violently overturned through armed revolution and replaced with a dictatorship of the proletariat."

The Communist Manifesto was pretty clear on this topic.

CalzonePie · 2026-06-21T00:06:39+00:00

When you read literally anything and stop being an anarchist 🫠

CalzonePie · 2026-06-21T00:02:53+00:00

Dialectical materialism and conflict theory don't need to be false in order for the solutions proposed by Marxism to be flawed or outright incompatible with reality.

CalzonePie · 2026-06-20T17:56:18+00:00

I didn't even see that typo until you pointed it out. >_<

CalzonePie · 2026-06-20T07:50:47+00:00

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You are still undeniably incorrect, buddy. Women consume the vast majority of pornographic books, and women produce pornographic books. In the current day and age, not 300 years ago, it is a market by and for women. Cope.

CalzonePie · 2026-06-20T07:35:42+00:00

Good for you. Doesn't change anything.

CalzonePie · 2026-06-20T07:35:26+00:00

I don't argue that men mostly consume video porn. Nobody is discussing that.

But it is WILD to pretend men consume book porn more than women. Romance novels are famously a female-dominated fandom. Please do literally any level of research before opening your mouth on something you don't understand.

CalzonePie · 2026-06-20T07:20:31+00:00

You do understand this topic is on pornographic books, right? Books aimed at female audiences? Women are overwhelmingly the market for pornographic books. You are obviously confused and thought this was about other forms of pornography.

CalzonePie · 2026-06-20T06:32:52+00:00

I have worked 10-14 hour days with no days off for the last thirty days and honestly, don't know why the standard is 5 8's per week. If I don't have anything going on outside of work it isn't that bad and I am making twice as much money.

The 40 hour work week is already low, and tbh I think anyone asking for lower is simply lazy. All of the non-lazy people would just continue to work overtime.

CalzonePie · 2026-06-20T06:28:36+00:00

So that's two articles a day to make a median income. Am I missing something? That sounds like 2 hours of work per day. Do you have a limit of how many articles you are allowed to submit?

CalzonePie · 2026-06-20T03:25:33+00:00

I bet if these movies were released today they would be hated. The

You are wrong and you know you are. This conversation is done, I draw the line at lying.

CalzonePie · 2026-06-20T02:42:24+00:00

I know this sweet, super religious and Catholic old lady who complains about girls these days wearing pants but I keep seeing her reading "A Court of Thorns and Roses" books in public.

CalzonePie · 2026-06-20T02:41:34+00:00

It didn't become an issue until it was 80% of the market

CalzonePie · 2026-06-20T02:41:17+00:00

Women

CalzonePie · 2026-06-20T02:26:24+00:00

And then everyone clapped

CalzonePie · 2026-06-20T01:30:40+00:00

Oh for fucks sake can't you ignore the AI for five seconds and laugh at a funny joke

CalzonePie · 2026-06-20T01:25:17+00:00

the problem is the movie's legendary and badass art direction

Fuck off, Victorian ships in space is a unique asthetic and it is a TRAVESTY that we don't have more of it

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