That doesn’t mean descriptions are not useful. There’s no such thing as a capitalist society, yet communism’s entire foundation is built on critiquing it.
There are no true societies.
There’s no such thing as a capitalist society
Please elaborate?? If you make claims, that stray far from the understanding of these terms by most people, it would be really useful to know, why you see it that way.
That doesn’t mean descriptions are not useful.
Descriptions are only useful when they tell you anything useful about the things, they are describing. The Soviet Union was neither communist nor socialist, because the workers didn’t control the means of production. The state did. This is fundamental to both of these systems. Sometimes, false labels can also be harmful, because they give the other person a false idea of what you are talking about. For example, it would be wrong and also really bad, if you were to describe the Nazis as socialists, just because they were called the “national socialists”.
You missed the point entirely. You can’t with one side of your tongue say there are no true communist societies while saying there are true capitalist countries with the other. Every country exists through a combination of both free market and government intervention in the economy. Yet, for some reason, only the platonic ideal true communism counts as communism, but the applied version counts as capitalism. I’m a leftist myself, I just think the double standard is fucking idiotic.
There are no true societies.
That doesn’t mean descriptions are not useful. There’s no such thing as a capitalist society, yet communism’s entire foundation is built on critiquing it.
Please elaborate?? If you make claims, that stray far from the understanding of these terms by most people, it would be really useful to know, why you see it that way.
Descriptions are only useful when they tell you anything useful about the things, they are describing. The Soviet Union was neither communist nor socialist, because the workers didn’t control the means of production. The state did. This is fundamental to both of these systems. Sometimes, false labels can also be harmful, because they give the other person a false idea of what you are talking about. For example, it would be wrong and also really bad, if you were to describe the Nazis as socialists, just because they were called the “national socialists”.
Explain what Elon Musk(and all the other billionaires are for that matter) is if there is no such thing as capitalistic society.
You missed the point entirely. You can’t with one side of your tongue say there are no true communist societies while saying there are true capitalist countries with the other. Every country exists through a combination of both free market and government intervention in the economy. Yet, for some reason, only the platonic ideal true communism counts as communism, but the applied version counts as capitalism. I’m a leftist myself, I just think the double standard is fucking idiotic.
Communism isn’t government intervention.