• Botree@lemmy.world
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    • Universal access to healthcare, food, water, shelter, electricity, and education without cost.
    • Prohibit the operation of businesses or investments in basic necessities mentioned in previous point.
    • Non-essential amenities such as entertainment, fashion, travel, luxury goods etc continue to be available for purchase.
    • A reasonable tax structure that ensures higher taxes for the rich.

    Is that Communism? Is that too much to ask for?

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      That’s more like socialism though, where capitalism coexist with worker/government run corporations.

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        Reading arguments about these concepts while many people completely disagree what their definitions are feels like treading water waiting to exhaust myself and drown.

        Maybe the point is the policies and anyone who argues about words is part of the problem.

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          Well the definitions are pretty clear, some people might just be uninformed because mixing the two has been very common in the right’s communication for decades.

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      Since China is communist like tankies believe, you also forgot a fascist police state with total control over the internet tot he point where you’ll get a police visit if you post a meme critical of the government.