• HighlandCow@feddit.uk
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    9 hours ago

    Same as Ireland right?, is it really a gotcha moment to say capitalism doesn’t work because sometimes it is installed under an authoritarian system, even though more so socialism is installed under a authoritarian system vast majority of the time

    • Cowbee [he/they]@lemmy.ml
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      All states are “authoritarian,” the difference is which class is the ruling class. In capitalism, that’s the capitalist class, but in socialism, it’s the working class. The state is simply the instrument by which the ruling class in any given society resolves class conflicts in favor of the ruling class. That’s why in socialist countries, metrics for the working class have skyrocketed, but they largely stagnate or decay in capitalism.