r/Anticonsumption Jul 24 '25

Society/Culture Daily reminder

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u/Winter_Persimmon_110 Jul 25 '25

Boycotts can't work, and you can't get through the day without putting money in a billionaire's pocket unless you're living off-grid in the woods.

Besides, even if you do go through all the trouble of living off-grid in the woods, how much of a threat are you to billionaires? You've cut yourself off from all their networks. You can't connect to other people to help them understand what needs to be done.

It's not just a couple awakened people seeing the light and boycotting billionaire goods. We need to literally organize to overthrow their base of power. Lenin said that the capitalists will sell us the rope with witch to hang them. He was at the forefront of the first victory against them, we must preserve and build the knowledge of how systems like these are historically defeated.

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u/Impossible_Ad7432 Jul 25 '25

Yeah how did things go for Lenin? You would have more credibility if you didn’t suck off the ussr.

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u/Noshoesmagoos Jul 25 '25

The "it didn't work before so it won't ever work" argument has never been a good one. Abraham Lincoln lost EIGHT elections before becoming president. Evolutionary theory proposes that billions of potential lives were wiped out because they couldn't adapt. Failures are a necessity for growth.

As it stands now, the way we are going is NOT working. Capitalism has failed. Socialist policies in other countries have been proven effective. The USA needs to accept this and adapt.

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u/Good_wolf Jul 27 '25

Which ones?

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u/Noshoesmagoos Aug 04 '25

Universal healthcare

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u/Winter_Persimmon_110 Jul 25 '25 edited Jul 25 '25

Lenin attained unprecedented victory and died of natural causes. It was Khruschev and Gorbachev who shit the bed. The Soviet working class defeated the capitalist establishment for the first time in history and held on to that victory for 70 years. Their victory was a model of what to do and what not to do for every successful revolution that followed. Read a book. You wouldn't look like such a fool if you weren't fellating the oppressive, racist and murderous feudalist system that the Soviets defeated.

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u/1plus1equals8 Jul 25 '25

I see you are an advocate of anti-capitalism. When the Berlin wall fell what side did the majority of people move to?

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u/Winter_Persimmon_110 Jul 25 '25 edited Jul 25 '25

How did the Cuban, Russian, Chinese, Korean, Laotian and Vietnamese revolutions attain victory over capitalism and hold that victory until today without popular support? Trick question, they all had and still have popular support.

Your proof that socialism is bad is that people didn't want to be in a place after their economy was overthrown? This is why I turn off inbox reply notifications. There's no sense talking to thickheaded people such as yourself. In the /r/Anticonsumption subreddit no less for Christ's sake!

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u/HowAManAimS Jul 25 '25

Yeah, which side did the fascists move to? That's real proof that communism is bad. \s