You might have had an argument if this were the 1980s. But communism failed. The “communist” party of China is dominated by billionaires now. Even the communists are capitalists now. Your socialist youtube influencers are all monetized and are heavily promoted by big tech’s algorithms. Many of them have merch stores and are millionaires. Leftism is just an aesthetic packaged and sold in a capitalist system.
Capitalist authoritarians in China maintain a communist aesthetic to have some weird semblance of legitimacy, and capitalist authoritarians in Russia have some nostalgia for the communist aesthetic. North Korea is backwards monarchy now, struggling to keep people from starving.
The military doesn’t maintain capitalism because at this point the “communists” are all capitalists now. Maybe for a time it helped protect against the authoritarian capitalists but now the US authoritarian too. We’re back to the era of Great Powers, and capitalism vs. socialism isn’t a factor much like it wasn’t a factor in the Great Powers world order of the past.
Sorry but Santa Claus isn’t real and communism died a long time ago. You’re just being sold the carcass by capitalists.
You might have had an argument if this were the 1980s. But communism failed. The “communist” party of China is dominated by billionaires now. Even the communists are capitalists now. Your socialist youtube influencers are all monetized and are heavily promoted by big tech’s algorithms. Many of them have merch stores and are millionaires. Leftism is just an aesthetic packaged and sold in a capitalist system.
Capitalist authoritarians in China maintain a communist aesthetic to have some weird semblance of legitimacy, and capitalist authoritarians in Russia have some nostalgia for the communist aesthetic. North Korea is backwards monarchy now, struggling to keep people from starving.
The military doesn’t maintain capitalism because at this point the “communists” are all capitalists now. Maybe for a time it helped protect against the authoritarian capitalists but now the US authoritarian too. We’re back to the era of Great Powers, and capitalism vs. socialism isn’t a factor much like it wasn’t a factor in the Great Powers world order of the past.
Sorry but Santa Claus isn’t real and communism died a long time ago. You’re just being sold the carcass by capitalists.