Asklemmy

47099 readers

1815 users here now

A loosely moderated place to ask open-ended questions

Search asklemmy 🔍

If your post meets the following criteria, it's welcome here!

Open-ended question
Not offensive: at this point, we do not have the bandwidth to moderate overtly political discussions. Assume best intent and be excellent to each other.
Not regarding using or support for Lemmy: context, see the list of support communities and tools for finding communities below
Not ad nauseam inducing: please make sure it is a question that would be new to most members
An actual topic of discussion

Looking for support?

Looking for a community?

Lemmyverse: community search
sub.rehab: maps old subreddits to fediverse options, marks official as such
!lemmy411@lemmy.ca: a community for finding communities

~Icon~ ~by~ ~@Double_A@discuss.tchncs.de~

founded 6 years ago

MODERATORS

Why aren’t any government making wealth inequality and property supply focused policies? (lemm.ee)

submitted 6 days ago by WyckedKaos@lemm.ee to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

59 comments fedilink hide all child comments

Why can’t any government in the world aim to tax ultra rich more whilst making easier for small to medium large businesses to thrive. And policies on property supply rather than property buyers like all sorts of first time buyers programs.

Why are only same old policies keep being peddled when the world is still going to shit?

That doesn’t involve reducing the government size and budget entirely or subscribing to any extreme left or right?

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments

[–] hihi24522@lemm.ee 20 points 6 days ago (3 children)

If anyone wants to read up more on “Governments were formed and exist to protect property rights” you might want to read The State and Revolution. It is pretty short and very relevant to this discussion

[–] Edie@lemmy.ml 12 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Other formats (the link is a PDF):

EPUB
Mobi
Online
Online (marx2mao)

[–] Cowbee@lemmy.ml 8 points 5 days ago

🫡

[–] Cowbee@lemmy.ml 11 points 6 days ago

Excellent rec, and one of Lenin's best works, alongside Imperialism, the Highest Stage of Capitalism IMO

[–] trashxeos@lemmygrad.ml 10 points 6 days ago (1 children)

State and Rev also has some of Lenin's best one liner quips ever written, definitely recommend that one. I should probably give it a second reading, it's a real banger of a book.

[–] Cowbee@lemmy.ml 11 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (2 children)

Lenin's uncontrollable urge to take any chance possible to shit on Kautsky will always make me laugh, lmao. For State and Rev in particular, (don't laugh!) is my favorite jab of his

[–] Grapho@lemmy.ml 5 points 5 days ago

Keeping with Marx's proud tradition of dunking on Proudhon for an entire book then dunking on him whenever he could later too.

[–] trashxeos@lemmygrad.ml 5 points 5 days ago (1 children)

My first interaction with that text was Marx Madness podcast, they had plenty of love for Kautsky dunking as well.

[–] Cowbee@lemmy.ml 8 points 5 days ago (1 children)

He's incredibly easy to dunk on, to be fair

[–] trashxeos@lemmygrad.ml 6 points 5 days ago (2 children)

I've never read Kautsky, so I'll have to take Lenin at his word since he was the first author to successfully lead a socialist revolution.

[–] PolandIsAStateOfMind@lemmy.ml 5 points 5 days ago

Kautsky does have some very good books to his name from before he became social imperialist that are worth reading even today like his summary of 1st book of Capital* or his history of early christianity.

*except the one chapter he allowed Bernstein of all people to write, but it's useful too, shows how Bernstein was clueless hack even then.

[–] Cowbee@lemmy.ml 5 points 5 days ago

Lenin does a pretty good job elaborating on Kautsky's mistakes.