Cypherpunk Politics

Mirimir mirimir at riseup.net
Fri Jan 30 18:33:18 PST 2015


On 01/30/2015 04:01 AM, Goran Novak wrote:
> On 30/01/2015 11:40 AM, Mirimir wrote:
>>
>> With some exceptions (batshit crazy ideologues, for the most part)
>> communism in practice has basically been kleptocracy. Ditto for
>> democracy (whether capitalist or socialist). Powerful just distract
>> sheeple in different ways.
> Kleptocracy, alternatively cleptocracy or kleptarchy, (from Greek:
> κλέπτης - kleptēs, "thief"[1] and κράτος - kratos, "power, rule",[2]
> hence "rule by thieves") is a form of political and government
> corruption where the government exists to increase the personal wealth
> and political power of its officials and the ruling class at the expense
> of the wider population, often with pretense of honest service.
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kleptocracy
> 
> Communism (from Latin communis – common, universal)[1][2] is a
> socioeconomic system structured upon the common ownership of the means
> of production and characterized by the absence of social classes,
> money,[3][4] and the state; as well as a social, political and economic
> ideology and movement that aims to establish this social order.
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Communism
> 
> Communism has not been ever put to practice.

Yes, that was my point. I should have said "alleged communism" and
"alleged democracy".

>>> The politicians are essentially the same IMHO.
>> In my experience, yes.
>>
>>> It is hard for me to tell which implementation
>>> sucks more.
>> They all suck. So it goes.
>>
> 
> 



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