Re: Ahoy Pie R8s! New Win11
Charlie Gibbs <[email protected]>
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On 2026-08-18, Lawrence D’Oliveiro <[email protected]> wrote: > On Tue, 18 Aug 2026 00:47:07 GMT, Charlie Gibbs wrote: > >> On 2026-08-17, Lawrence D’Oliveiro <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> On Mon, 17 Aug 2026 16:58:52 GMT, Charlie Gibbs wrote: >>> >>>> I find it ironic that these huge, right-wing companies are working >>>> to achieve Karl Marx's fondest dream: the elimination of private >>>> property. (We could quibble about these companies being private >>>> themselves, or just acknowledge that they're more part of the >>>> government than private citizens.) >>> >>> Karl Marx would be spinning in his grave if he knew you were >>> claiming that the corporations whose power he was against were in >>> any way the fulfilment of his ideas. >> >> That's the lovely thing about irony. :-) > > Point being, it’s just wrong. Communism is about the Government taking > control of the means of production, not about the owners of the means > of production taking control of the Government. > > To understand the difference, just compare the USA with China right > now. One of those is doing one of those things, the other is doing the > other one of those things. Under capitalism, man exploits man. Under communism, it's just the opposite. -- John Kenneth Galbraith -- /~\ Charlie Gibbs | In this world there are \ / <[email protected]> | two kinds of people: X I'm really at ac.dekanfrus | 1. Those who can extrapolate / \ if you read it the right way. | from incomplete data.