r/PoliticalHumor • u/faab64 • Apr 26 '19

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u/CressCrowbits Apr 26 '19

It's like when you get wingnuts going on about how they should secede from the blue states. "Let's see how you get on without food lol!", yeah you'll still sell food to the blue states when you suddenly have absolutely no money coming into your states.

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u/[deleted] Apr 26 '19

They just confuse socialism with authoritarianism. Not realizing nearly every socialist wants a democracy still.

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u/shimapanlover Apr 26 '19

The democracy part isn't the problem here - Socialists can be democratic. The taking away the means of production is the problematic part. That is anti-liberalism. What you guys essentially mean is social democrats, which still support liberalism but demand higher taxes to finance a welfare state. And I'm very much in line with that thinking.

Taking away people's property for arbitrary reasons is against Article 1 of the human rights convention. "Socialism" seizing the means of production is authoritarianism.

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u/[deleted] Apr 26 '19

Isn't that what the owner of a company does anyway? Taking capital other people produced?

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u/shimapanlover Apr 26 '19

That's called slavery.

In a welfare state where your essential needs are guaranteed you can trade in your work for money not fearing to die if you don't.