Socialism for the elite but not for the masses?

  • Deceptichum@quokk.au
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    3 days ago

    The entire way the military works is functional communism. Housing is assigned by rank,

    Uhh - that would be a ‘bourgeois right’, going Marx’s ‘Critique of the Gotha Programme’. Very much the opposite intended outcome.

    • supernicepojo@lemmy.world
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      3 days ago

      Honestly I would compare it to group project eugenics because of the strict processing and selection of who can join. Cant be disabled, have to have all your arms and legs, picky even about eyesight. They might be picking the poor but theyre also grabbing the healthiest of the poor.

      • arrow74@lemmy.zip
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        I mean yeah, not that there are any wars that we should be fighting anyway, but it’d be really fucked up to drop a guy in a wheelchair into a war zone.

        You can’t become a bus driver if you’re blind either.

        Some jobs simply can’t be accommodated for, hopefully we one day can have technology progresses to that point, but this critique of the military seems off to me