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   Toni Aittoniemi (gimulnautti@mastodon.green)'s status on Tuesday, 03-Sep-2024 23:47:19 JST Toni Aittoniemi

   • Bread and Circuses

   @breadandcircuses As a Nordic, I think I know the answer to this riddle:

   During the long cold war, Americans were swimming constant anti-socialism #propaganda, which diminished the difference between ”market economy” and ”capitalism”.

   After generations, you have a culture unable to distinguish between the two, and convinced no #socialist politics can ever be compatible with a market economy.

   It’s bollocks, but I can’t help you much more than this.

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     Fifi Lamoura (fifilamoura@eldritch.cafe)'s status on Tuesday, 03-Sep-2024 23:47:17 JST Fifi Lamoura

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     • Bread and Circuses
     • bouriquet

     @bouriquet @gimulnautti @breadandcircuses But, also, socialism and communism are dog whistles for Jewish and Black in the US. The racism and White supremacy is baked into the capitalism=democracy lie too.

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     bouriquet (bouriquet@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 03-Sep-2024 23:47:18 JST bouriquet

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     • Bread and Circuses

     @gimulnautti @breadandcircuses During the cold war, the educational system labeled things not capitalism as communism, never really separating socialism from communism.
     The fear of losing ownership of personal property was emphasized, even though socialism allows ownership of personal property.
     But under American capitalism, the 1% own mostly everything. The people own so little, because most of it is bank-financed. “Keep buying crap, keep working. Dont question.”

     carl marks repeated this.