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Have you actually read any marxist texts?
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I have read the words of actual communists. The text is only relevant if people actually follow it. So far, I have not seen any self-proclaimed communists that have.
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Me: communists want to take options away
Only the option to trample over your fellow man
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Unfortunately, their definition of "trample" is so absurdly broad that it could encompass
every action.
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I don't believe you have even tried to deny the following concept:-
1) There are 2 people, person A and person B
2) Person A is rich, Person B is poor
3) In a capitalist society, a person with wealth has more options avaliable to him/her because the options of certain services, certain goods and certain lifestyles cost money
4) More options means that person has more freedom, the freedom of choice.
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Person A has 1 vote. Person B has one vote. More people are like person A than person B. Therefore, Person A has more control over laws than person B.
No amount of wealth can give person B more political power. He has only one vote.
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5) Therefore person A has more freedom than person B
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That is true in any society though. Even communist ones. There is no way to ensure everyone is exactly equal. Therefore, there will always be rich and poor. All communism changes is the medium of barter.
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Yes it is, it consists in attributing an expressive function to everything that is superfluous
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Who decides what is superfluous?
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As soon as the rich and their superfluity disappeared, the poor suddenly became human again, although they still had only barely enough.
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And yet even the poor in America live better than the average Chinese citizen. so which system is truely more desirable?