The merging of government and corporate power structures has more in common with fascism than with authoritarian communism or liberal libertarian socialism.
It’s more just that while they’re calling Mamdani a communist, at the same time they’re doing the thing that is literally the single most Communist thing a government can do: have the state gain direct ownership or control of the means of production. Communism is many things depending on where, when, and who you ask. But the bare minimum, the common denominator under all forms? State owns of the means of production. And here’s Trump literally seizing the means of production. Not just giving out grants or loans, but literally taking a permanent equity stake in a major international company. That is the literal, most basic definition of a Communist action. If literally seizing the means of production isn’t Communist, what the hell is?
Except communism isn’t when the state seizes the means of production, it’s when the workers seize the means of production. Anarchism, for example, is a form of communism that specifically calls for the abolition of the state.
I think the person you are replying to may have been trying to point out the irony of the Americans who voted for Trump because they don’t want the state spending money on its poor citizens, when they turn a blind eye to the state investing heavily in private industry.
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Their point is that the US practices white glove socialism for the rich and rugged merciless capitalism for the poor
The merging of government and corporate power structures has more in common with fascism than with authoritarian communism or
liberallibertarian socialism.It’s more just that while they’re calling Mamdani a communist, at the same time they’re doing the thing that is literally the single most Communist thing a government can do: have the state gain direct ownership or control of the means of production. Communism is many things depending on where, when, and who you ask. But the bare minimum, the common denominator under all forms? State owns of the means of production. And here’s Trump literally seizing the means of production. Not just giving out grants or loans, but literally taking a permanent equity stake in a major international company. That is the literal, most basic definition of a Communist action. If literally seizing the means of production isn’t Communist, what the hell is?
Except communism isn’t when the state seizes the means of production, it’s when the workers seize the means of production. Anarchism, for example, is a form of communism that specifically calls for the abolition of the state.
I think the person you are replying to may have been trying to point out the irony of the Americans who voted for Trump because they don’t want the state spending money on its poor citizens, when they turn a blind eye to the state investing heavily in private industry.