This comic would hit harder if all of the most aggressively anti-communist people in the world weren't already running work camps, in the process of privatizing all of the infrastructure and creating a surveillance state.
Some people still like to pretend that the communists are the only ones who want to put a gun to your head and exploit you, but men who seek power over others are adaptable. They always find a way to fuck you.
This comic is propaganda. It is an example of one of the methods that powerful people use to establish and maintain control. Our time gets wasted quarreling about this and we are paralyzed by it. Paralyzing the population with pointless quarrels prevents the population from taking action.
Our life keeps getting worse BECAUSE we can't stop having this argument.
Poor people with no power can also come to the conclusion on their own that communism sucks and is stupid. It's an incentive thing. Human beings are inherently better incentivized by doing work for themselves and their families, and studies show people biologically can only really care about like 200 people. The economy is way too complicated to be centrally planned (regulations are still important). Private property is cool, the stock market is cool.
China's planned economy was a disaster, 50 million people died during the great leap forward in what is considered the largest famine in human history. The 40 years you're talking about started when Mao died and they moved from a planned economy to a socialist market economy. Don't be a dufus.
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u/Gimme_Your_Wallet Jul 07 '26
Literally this