• ComradeSharkfucker@lemmy.ml
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    5 months ago

    Capitalism was a necessary step in the development of socialism. It wasn’t a mistake, it’s just run its course. Just a technicality I know and I shouldn’t overanalyze but I felt it was worth stating

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      5 months ago

      That’s like saying “everything happens for a reason” to someone whose whole family has just been murdered.

      No. Capitalism was never necessary.

      • tweeks@feddit.nl
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        4 months ago

        But nothing is actually necessary. It depends on what you want to achieve.

        The speed of innovation might have gotten a big impulse by capitalism; I’m not sure if we’d technologically be where we are now otherwise. Of course one could argue that we do not need tech in its current form, which is fair.