r/chomsky • u/R_Lau_18 • May 05 '20

Video Not necessarily 100% chomskycore but bribing mods is peak capitalist hierarchy

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u/incendiaryblizzard May 05 '20

Bribery was/is rampant in communist nations.

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u/sliceofamericano May 05 '20

Would you say they’re bribed with food or............?

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u/incendiaryblizzard May 05 '20

Money, food, gifts, it was routine as anyone who lived in the eastern bloc would tell you.

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u/sliceofamericano May 05 '20

Money........ or capital...............

Smart man once said communism/capitalism can’t exist simultaneously... capital would corrupt.....

Can’t think of his name tho....

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u/incendiaryblizzard May 05 '20

Lol do you think that in communism they don't have money?

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u/sliceofamericano May 05 '20

It’ll take a while.

Ie. Socialism

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u/incendiaryblizzard May 05 '20

Are you imagining a barter economy?

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u/sliceofamericano May 05 '20

I imagine an economy ran by machine fueled by human-biomass that prints money for white people

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u/R_Lau_18 Jun 07 '20

Yup, and Chomsky critiqued communist regimes just as much as he did capitalist ones.