>>82096814
>No one needs $500 pants. No one needs $500 Nikes. No one needs to be able to choose between 100 different brands of blue jeans made of the exact same material. Or 100 different brands of corn flake cereal
Sure, I can concede that in the US consumer culture is absolutely out of control and that capitalism is a rotten system. However, this does not mean that Communism is the solution.

Communism is a system that fails on its own merits. It drags everyone down to the lowest common denominator and makes that the standard for everyone outside of "The Party," which always seems to form as an oligarchy in spite of communism's supposed goal of ridding their society of classes and wealth disparity. People are by nature going to seek upward mobility and a system that rations everything equally rewards homeless smack addicts the same as neurosurgeons and effectively eliminates any incentive to be better.

This of course, is without mentioning the countless atrocities suffered under communist regimes in the 20th century. Over 100 million civilian deaths can be directly attributed to communist governments through genocide and starvation. The USSR was an awful place to live, especially in the satellite states, and I encourage you to talk to some people that lived back then about the living conditions they suffered.

So communism and capitalism are both cancers, and neither system is good to live under. What is the solution? Well... some call it third positionism.

>>81826654
Vidya. Or convince them to be racist. Probably both