Re: Ahoy Pie R8s! New Win11

On 2026-08-17 10:51 p.m., Lawrence D’Oliveiro 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.

When you consider how companies are being swallowed up by bigger 
entities putting power of production into the hands of fewer and fewer 
people, it's almost as if we are going in the same direction with 
capitalism. The only difference is that with Communism, the government 
is the one exploiting the workers.

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