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    You just flip flopping don’t you? I thought you didn’t like moralising between good and evil? The sympathy is becuse capitalists must exploit in order to make a living, and if they’re a good person, it must be a hard thing to have to do.

    Yes, I get it’s a metaphor and doesn’t literally mean a song of God leading people to tge promised land. But the metaphor means a hero or liberator at the very least: an individual leading their people out of oppression into freedom. Socialists don’t think like this. It should be a democratic, popular, grssroots movement not led by any individual.

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      Where does it say it has to be an individual? “Workers” could be the messiah

      Also, no you don’t “empathise with the capitalist” don’t lie to yourselves

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        Where does it say it has to be an individual? Workers could be the messiah

        Lmao no. Not how messiah narratives work lad. Messiahs are heroic individuals. Stories about groups overcoming oppression are called revolutions or rebellions. Read a fucking book, mate.

        you don’t “empathise with the capitalist” don’t lie to yourselves

        Yes, yes I do. Because I know if I were in that position, I’d feel pretty damn awful about it. It’s hard enough just giving orders to begin with. It’s not a position that should exist. We seem to intuitively understand this with kings, but somehow capitalists is too far for people these day.

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          The people that “overthrow capitalism” would be considered heroic individuals too

          For example, Lenin’s mummy is exposed in a fucking public plaza in the capital of Russia like if he was a monument

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            Nope, they would be working class getting what they deserve. Also, no one overthrew capitalism is Russia. They didn’t have capitalism to begin with. Learn your history. They also never ended up with communism, if that’s what you’re gonna say. They had a state capitalism. And the veneration of individuals ia another clue we’re not dealing with a system about the people.

            I just love how you keep trying to prove me wrong, but can only find examples that prove me right. It’s beautiful.

            I love you.

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                Is a fly a real kangaroo? Definitions exist for a reason. Communism is stateless - the USSR had a state. Communism is moneyless - but they still used money. Communism erases class distinctions - guess what else? The USSR had class distinctions. Sorry buddy. You can tell me you have a car, but if it only has two wheels and no motor, it’s probably just a bicycle.

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                    It wasn’t real flying, though… literally! You just made my own point better than I could. Lmao.