[-] Communist@lemmy.ml 22 points 5 months ago

Is there any chance you're a chimera?

[-] Communist@lemmy.ml 27 points 6 months ago

I just set

upd = <distro update command>
ins = <distro install command> 
pur = <distro purge command>
uin = <distro uninstall command>

in every distro, I don't know why you'd want package management to be distro specific commands

[-] Communist@lemmy.ml 23 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/xorg/xserver/-/merge_requests/967

The short version of the story, wait until this has landed in your distro of choice, or you'll have flickering problems.

[-] Communist@lemmy.ml 22 points 7 months ago

Manjaro is truly the worst distro of all time and probably helps give arch a bad name

[-] Communist@lemmy.ml 27 points 9 months ago

Do you like your steak well done?

[-] Communist@lemmy.ml 28 points 9 months ago

I care a lot about bidens age, actually, I just care that he isn't trump a lot more.

[-] Communist@lemmy.ml 24 points 11 months ago

They are just lumps of fat, not real tails, they are removed for cosmetic reasons

[-] Communist@lemmy.ml 22 points 11 months ago

Bidet, easy, second choice was an AMDGPU, fuck nvidia.

[-] Communist@lemmy.ml 21 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Private property used by marxist philosophers refers to property that generates capital. An example would be a factory.

When marx said abolish private property, what he was really saying is, make it so that factories are owned by the people who work in them, rather than by some rando who has nothing to do with working in them. He was not saying that you shouldn't have the right to own a toothbrush.

Your toothbrush, according to marx, would be PERSONAL property.

[-] Communist@lemmy.ml 21 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Are you being outrageous and arguing in bad faith on purpose?

I genuinely can't tell, in the event that you're not, nobody has ever suggested that janitors should be allowed to do the duties of brain surgeons. Furthermore, even if a single absolutely insane janitor decided he should be allowed to do the duties of a brain surgeon... nobody else would agree with them, because we live in a society with vaguely reasonable humans... and that janitor would likely be democratically FIRED for suggesting something so outrageous, or put in a mental institution.

Or are you worried about the janitor uprising in which janitors decide they can do all jobs known to man? Perhaps nothing can stop the janitor uprising, and we are all doomed.

[-] Communist@lemmy.ml 21 points 1 year ago

Okay, first, to lay some groundwork, there have been many modes of production throughout history

first, there was hunter/gatherer societies, then feudalism, then capitalism

Then we have theories as to what could come next, according to the marxist viewpoint, the next thing will be socialism, and then after that, communism.

So, communism is a post-socialist ideology, the only requirement for it to be socialism is that instead of a bourgeois class and a worker class, they will become unified (doesn't matter how for the purposes of explaining this, but usually through violent revolution)

So, a socialist place would have the workers self-manage, people who work in a place would also have democratic control over that place in some way.

After that happens, for various reasons outside of the scope of an eli5, communism comes, communism is a post-socialist society in which the workers own the means of production (hence the socialist prerequisite), currency has been abolished, the state has been abolished (but not government, these are two distinct entities in socialist thought), and there are no class divisions whatsoever.

Part of the problems with discussions about these topics is that communist philosophers of old used terms in very different ways than the colloquial ways we use them today. I can expand upon this if you have any followup questions!

[-] Communist@lemmy.ml 26 points 1 year ago

That's state capitalism, and has nothing to do with socialism.

The workers control the means of production under socialism, not the government, this makes it in no way socialist by any commonly used definition of socialism by philosophers.

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