The Conservative Defense of Capitalism

And the Soviet Union lasted just 74 years.

The Bolsheviks killed people like me. You think I support a system like that?

You already said you did, genius.

Where?

Are you kidding me?

Maybe people like you deserved it. If even the Bolsheviks hated you.

Bluessol, pro-Bolshevik???

No, I hold them in very low esteem. Only slightly lower than mansheviks. All Commies so samey same.

You obviously read zero theory.

Partisan generalizations are dumb , they all suck

Why are you on the same side as those billionaires who all now support the left? You’re not a revolutionary, you’re the establishment big money, big tech, big business and you.

What are you talking about? This meme is making fun of conservative ideology.

But you have no REAL understanding of "conservative ideology", TC.
It is YOU who don't know what YOU'RE talking about.

I used to be a conservative and then a right-libertarian, so I find that hard to believe.

You didn’t use to be a liar did you?

I am always interested in the truth. Conservatives don't appear to be.

Like you liberals are.

Didn't I just tell you I'm an anarcho-communist? And you're calling me a liberal.

It’s almost the same thing now. Why not leave to the anarchist-commie paradise. Wherever that is.

Liberals want capitalism and government. I want neither of those things. Conservatives just band words together and think that they're smart.

I agree, haven’t seen a true liberal in a while. They are quiet cowards if they are still in the Democratic Party. Anarchists are just anti everything Commies.

It’s called Hell.

You’re just a commie that’s open about it. Many commies just call themselves “liberal” because it’s less threatening of a word.

Again, wrong. I engage with other communists everyday and they are staunchly opposed to liberalism because of what it stands for. We hate the connotation conservatives make for us.

Liberals are weak and support globalization.

Communists are anti-capitalist and want the abolition of class. Why would Democrats want to abolish their own donors?

Communist government hog all the wealth. The little people suffer greatly and barely survive.

Utter nonsense.

Bullshit, kiddo.

I became interested in politics in late 2014 because my conservative father was ranting about Obama granting amnesty to illegal immigrants. I remember eagerly watching the 2015 Republican presidential debates. At the time I was a supporter of Rand Paul. I started to become appalled by the things Trump suggested for policy. Then, I started paying attention to the Libertarians presidential nomination process. I supported Austin Petersen. I saw Gary Johnson in September 2016 at a rally.

I read Harry Browne's The Great Libertarian Offer, David Bergland's Libertarianism in One Lesson and Henry Hazlitt's Economics in One Lesson. I subscribed to Reason magazine and the Mises Institute's "The Austrian" publication... which I still unfortunately receive in the mail.

Over time I grew disenfranchised with right-libertarianism. My people seemed to excuse the injustices by large enterprises and the harm done to workers by them. There were some things I just couldn't answer, for example why we apparently can't afford universal healthcare in the U.S. when every other developed nation manages just fine. I asked myself why our federal bureaus feel so threatened by communism but not right-libertarianism. I was also becoming aware that classical libertarianism was communist, as that was the original meaning of the word libertarian. Moreover, I discovered that the history famous libertarians like Rothbard used came from Holocaust deniers. It made me sick to my stomach. Everything I believed in was a lie. And almost every advancement of right-libertarian ideology in the U.S. can be traced back to the billionaire Koch brothers. Also, not a single right-libertarian has won a debate against Sam Seder, who ridicules them.

So I learned about anarcho-communism, and discovered in contrast to the Soviet Union and more totalitarian communist attempts, it was not authoritarian and their attempts were much more successful at having needs met. I read the Conquest of Bread by Peter Kropotkin, then The ABC of Anarchism by Alexander Berkman, then my favorite, Anarcho-Syndicalism by Rudolf Rocker. I could finally oppose public and private tyranny and stand for well-being for all.

Nah, you’re just a troll. You must live a sad life knowing that trolling adults isn’t as funny as trolling kids. Go on a kids game or shit to troll people.

I like how you assume I just made all that up. lmao

The mere fact that your name is “triggering conservatives” and you post on the main politics stream, which is predominantly right-wing, and that no one agrees with you, it makes me think that you’re trolling us.

Well, you are still wrong. The fact that you bring up Sam Seder as an influence is laughable. My well-being is low because of the threats from communists like yourself. You are a Bolshevik.

I dare you to call in to the Majority Report and debate him.

Are you a capitalist, or a fascist? Why do you feel so threatened?

What's funny is you probably find me ignorant but you just called an anarchist a Bolshevik.

I am a capitalist. Communism is a failure.

You mean "entrepreneurs".
And that is correct...but they are still "capitalist", even though they may not be engaged in business venture.

What shares do you own? Do you own your own business?

I mean capitalism, genius. I’m for the free markets and not for a command economy like the Soviet Union was.

Conservative meaning what? All the big money is on the democratic leftists side now. They switched haven’t you noticed they all went woke? I’m sure it’s because they are mega concerned about people over profits now. 😂😂😂😂

hahaha, an actual Commie shut you up.

Funny I don’t feel shut up. Keep trying Commies.

So you talk out loud as you type?
Shocker.

I know troglodytes are always amazed when anyone can do two things at once, like walk and chew gum.

You are confusing. What democratic leftists are you talking about? If you mean the Democrats, then of course, they have always had wealthy donors and are about as worthless and harmful as the GOP.

Last I checked the big money Democrats still want capitalism, and the party establishment will not be embracing socialism anytime soon.

All Democratic leftists who are deluded into believing they are anti establishment and yet they actually are the establishment.

You think me, an anarchist, is part of the establishment?

You seem to identify with their causes.

I didn't realize the establishment was suicidal.

Are you suicidal?

He’s not suicidal, just really really really really really really really really really really super duper retarded.

That because you are a communist and believe if anyone works harder and attains more they should be punished. You need to move to a commie paradise of your choice where everyone does the minimum required because there is no point in doing more.

Who can have the highest claim to labor when ideas, resources, crafting and shipping are all vital parts of the process? Instead you are fine with the system rewarding CEOs that profit off of other's ideas, and contribute far less to their company than their employees. This is easily proven if all Apple employees went on strike. No profits would be made at all.

So no, no-one is going to be punished except the exploitative capitalist class that profits from the labor of the working class beneath them. Private property enables this exploitation. Before capitalism, people worked from their own homes. Capitalists burned down villages and chased commoners off their land to make economic use of the land, and erected factories to force people into them and make profits for the capitalists for a wage in return. That cannot persist.

If you actually earned a million dollar home through your own work and not someone else's, nobody is coming after you. It is the exploiters of the working class who are in our crosshairs.

In your crosshairs? Hmm sounds threatening. So you believe Murder and execution is the way to the right path? Commoners? Are you English? Fighting over 13th century injustices?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inclosure_Acts

Oh I was off by a few centuries I guess. I thought Britain tried socialism, it didn’t work did it.

They went from feudalism to capitalism. Where was the socialism?

Boy, you skipped a lot of history

“While there were major political differences between the totalitarian rule of the Soviets and the democratic politics of Israel, India, and the U.K., all three of the latter countries adhered to socialist principles, nationalizing their major industries and placing economic decision-making in the hands of the government.”