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  • I’ve said something along these lines before but that was when I was much newer to socialism.

    Now I’d say that if a community owned the means of clothes production that is not capitalism. If they give/sell them that also does not have to be capitalistic as long as the goal is not using commodities to make money for money’s sake.

    If you take that money and put it towards building other commodities thats also fine, any most political systems need a way to make new things. Marx called this C-M-C where you sell a commodity ©, transform it into money (M) and then use that money to get a new commodity ©. This makes sense because a commodity is only as valuable as you can use it, it’s use-value BUT if the end goal is money. Then it becomes a M-C relationship. Now the goal is money. Money is spent to buy stuff for the sole purpose of making money, there is no desire to use it only to extract the markup costs

    Lastly the people working there must own it. If a state-like figure owns it and makes the decisions in a heavy top-down fashion and profit is not openly shared then I think that is just state capitalism.







  • They claim the beast is yellow and that I have nothing to fear.
    “It’s just a hue of blue on yellow, nothing else to see here.”
    But I’m not worried about the yellow; I’m worried about the blue.
    Its externalities are sharp and protrude.

    This beast is small and skittish, you can always push him away,
    Which means you’ll be touching the yellow — a majority of the beast, I’d say.
    But what if he were ten times bigger? Could I merely push him away?
    Give me any other option, any other color, I’ll even take red.
    It’s better than winding up dead.

    “If you’re worried about the beast, then simply track the yellow.
    Follow its mass, and keep your eyes on the grass —
    I’m sure you won’t even notice the blue.”

    And while I do track this color, along with many other hues,
    I’m still afraid of the big blue.



  • Fun fact: Thunder does help plants grow, more specifically lighting does. When it lightnings the nitrogen in the air is split apart and combines with the oxygen in the air to form nitrogen oxide and gets washed down by rain into the soil and is absorbed by plants. After some lightning plants will usually look extra green.