Edit: /j
You know that humans lived in communal societies for a long fuckin time before all the bullshit we know today, right?
Human nature is not greed. That's capitalism.
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Pretty sure humans have been bashing in each others heads over resources since the dawn of humanity.
Capitalism made it worse and more efficient tho.
Half the problem with capitalism is that we aren't allowed to bash in the heads of the people who took all the resources.
Came here to say this, the problem is the system of government because everyone can be bought. We need direct democracy where there are no representatives that can be bought
The mode of production takes priority, capitalism with direct democracy would still fall to the same problems intrinsic to capitalism.
That's basically true, but I think capitalism would overthrow direct democracy.
People would vote for higher wages and then there'd be a coup.
Sure, the base will shape the superstructure. Any levers that can be pulled within capitalism will either be destroyed or nerfed if proven too effective at gaining what workers want.
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Yeah of course, this meme is meant to be making fun of the idea that "human nature" (whatever that may be lol) in any way disproves communist or anticapitalist theory
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Human nature on its deathbed when it realizes it forgot to account for Karl Marx
Observing humans in capitalism and assuming greed is just human nature is like observing humans on the Titanic and assuming drowning is human nature.
It's just rejecting your responsibility in the way you behave. "It's not me, it's the nature"
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It's in Human Nature to be violent, which I why I've made sure to arm my kindergarten class with knives. Because otherwise I would not be accounting for Human Nature.
(note: this is sarcastic, I did not arm a kindergarten class with knives)
you armed them with knives in a gun fight?!
They're doing the best they can with a teacher's salary
it bet we'll get gun equity before we get healthcare, childcare, or educational equity. lol
(However I did give them hard plastic clubs shaped in the form of shovels)
Oh, you are being sarcastic? Wouldn't have guessed
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Welcome to todays episode of criticizing things you haven't read:
and won't read. lol
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Marx didn't forgot such thing he refuted it. No such thing as " human nature "
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Even if you assume human nature is greed, it's also human nature to have their babies eaten by wolves but I don't see anyone suggesting we should center our society on baby tossin' wolf pits.
Well that's WHERE youre wrong buddy. Wolf pits are the last GREAT thang ABOUT this cuntry and I won't HAVE no liburels taking them!
Edit: capitalized more words.
Killing people who don't worship the same Gods as you, taking slaves from the neighboring city state, and having a harem of ~~sex slaves~~ "wives" are all "human nature" that have all been done since before we had the technology to record them all the way up to today. Should those be tolerated in modern society too? Hell no.
Dying from infections, cancer, accidents etc is also human nature.
Liberal doomerism based on imaginary restrictions, how new.
it's not just imaginary, humans thrived of mutual cooperation for tens of thousands of years while capitalism has only existed for a few hundred, but somehow that it's became the default position of everyone.
Yes. I am pointing that out. That is the imaginary thing.
"Somehow," looks behind us at five centuries of European settler-colonialism.
"Everyone," looks ahead at the millions of people who defy hegemonically enforced constructions of human nature despite the overwhelming power those systems possess.
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Capitalism doesn't work, and it's for the same reason.
It used to be human nature. Nowadays it's nothing more than social engineering that teaches us what is up is down and what isn't, is.
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Me when I take all napkins and salt shakers from every restaurant because apparently greed is just human nature
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Common refrain from capitalism fans is that communism can never work because humans are inherently selfish/greedy as proven by their observation that humans are selfish and greedy in the system that rewards selfishness and greed.
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