You know what my eyes are opened too —capitalism is when hard working Americans get all the capital and communist leeches aren't allowed to steal it just because they're in charge.

You know what goes well with capitalism? Democracy! You vote on your sheriff, so why vote for who your boss is at work, and how many sick days everyone gets? Let's go full capitalist!

Ya know, there might be something to that as a strat.

And we'll protect our gloriously fought victory with a vanguard enforcing conformity to support the eventual relinquishing of power to the proletariat once there is no longer class and we have expanded our stateless society worldwide, thus vanquishing borders!

Just need to kill off done rabble rousing anarchists first...

Say it louder for the people in the back

But we have to be moderately responsible for the outcomes instead of just throwing our hands in the air and giving up!

For fun, when I was in school, I'd ask people what they thought of this and that all the time and I was very much impressed that "what is ____" are questions that don't have answers. Our education is fucked.

Generally, to boomers capitalism and communism is absolutely summed up with that drunk in the grocery store story.

Consumer choice is typically the vibes.

Ah yes, the Soviet union where rent capped out at 10% of your salary, and that's just in places without any labor incentives. If you were in a new industrial town your rent was free since it was you doing a favor to the people in moving to a remote area and having to live in a new city. That's totally the same thing as American capitalism and totally opposed to Marxist ideals...

That's a troll

Seems to me they already have been

Not at all. Here in South Africa, the ruling ANC has spent the last thirty years demonstrating what perfect neoliberal capitalists they are... yet you'll still find plenty of local neo-nazis blubbering about the (supposedly) "socialist" ANC.

Here in NY we have 1 year leases capped at an increase of 3% per year. However landlords can increase rent another 3% if they can show that they had to do upgrades or emergency repairs or some other nonsense. They've applied for and received this exemption to double our increase EVERY SINGLE YEAR I've lived there, and it seems there is nothing to stop them from doing it every year until the end of time.

The infuriating thing? There are no actual upgrades being done. The roads are constantly full of potholes. The water lines constantly spring leaks. The power is constantly cutting out - brownouts are common, and blackouts happen every winter. We are responsible for paying all our utilities, mowing the lawn, and maintaining our lots, and the office is apparently responsible for nothing and spends nothing upgrading or maintaining the park. But somehow they qualify for that extra 3% increase every single year without fail.

• I live in a trailer park owned by Horizon Land Management. There are youtube videos detailing how trailer parks used to be cheap housing for the poor, but now that private equity companies like Horizon are buying them up, they're raising lot rent sky high and parasitizing the people who are so poor they can't afford to leave. Trailers were the cheapest housing many of us could afford. Where else could we go? They basically suck the blood out of us like vampires.

It's wild to me that we just casually call them land lords... I'm literally just a serf paying rent to my lord. "Tenant" is just putting lipstick on it.