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Goff @themightygoff.bsky.social

I mean, it's like you're arguing my point.

aug 24, 2025, 10:51 am • 0 0

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aiteall.bsky.social @aiteall.bsky.social

I don't agree that state capitalism is fascism. Eg China. I do agree that the US and Britain seem to be moving in that direction.

aug 24, 2025, 11:03 am • 1 0 • view
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deadward @deadward.bsky.social

A lot of people are failing to make this distinction, it's fairly simple though, if monetary power and thus production is controlled socially and democratically it isn't facism

aug 24, 2025, 11:12 am • 0 0 • view
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aiteall.bsky.social @aiteall.bsky.social

It's almost impossible to control monetary power democratically. That's the main problem faced by the Left.

aug 24, 2025, 11:15 am • 1 0 • view
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deadward @deadward.bsky.social

The problem is ignorance, it isn't hard at all but everyone is stuck pretending money is a finite commodity

aug 24, 2025, 11:17 am • 0 0 • view
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aiteall.bsky.social @aiteall.bsky.social

Not ignorance! Credit creation by big Finance and bailed out by governments when the balloon goes pop!

aug 24, 2025, 11:19 am • 1 0 • view
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deadward @deadward.bsky.social

Yes along with cries of where to find the money, who will be taxed, what services cut, how to pay back the money that was created from nothing.. Anyway thats the crux, 'big finance's (private banks) must also be under social control along with public bank. Simple as

aug 24, 2025, 11:22 am • 1 0 • view
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Goff @themightygoff.bsky.social

You obviously don't understand what Fascism is. Nor, I fear, do you understand what constitutes democracy. #readmore

aug 24, 2025, 11:23 am • 0 0 • view
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deadward @deadward.bsky.social

Do you have an actual point to share?

aug 24, 2025, 11:26 am • 0 0 • view
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aiteall.bsky.social @aiteall.bsky.social

One of my favourite poets, Attila the Stockbroker, used to denounce abstract nouns..."Democracy" is one such. It needs a content!

aug 24, 2025, 11:47 am • 1 0 • view
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deadward @deadward.bsky.social

I am guessing Goff believes state power can never be for the people, but I'm not sure?

aug 24, 2025, 11:52 am • 0 0 • view
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aiteall.bsky.social @aiteall.bsky.social

The "people" is a very wide definition. Mao used it to suggest the unity of the peasants and the working class.

aug 24, 2025, 11:54 am • 2 0 • view
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deadward @deadward.bsky.social

In my mind it's money or people. Capital or real human and biosphere needs. The categories may change within those of the people to include proletarian, peasant, etc.

aug 24, 2025, 11:56 am • 0 0 • view