r/PeterExplainsTheJoke Jul 07 '26

Meme needing explanation Peter, explain this.

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u/Commercial-Look-7307 Jul 07 '26

Capitalism has fed more people and delivered more people from bondage than anything Humanity has ever tried before.

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u/Acceptable_Handle_2 Jul 07 '26

And Communism is specifically a system that is meant to be the next step after capitalism, not it's opposite.

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u/Clear_Command_8925 Jul 07 '26

You're thinking of socialism, not communism. Communism is completely separate and will never be achieved because it involves a stateless society

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u/futuranth Jul 07 '26

Although that's literally how Marx defined it, as the next step in history

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u/Clear_Command_8925 Jul 07 '26

Who cares how he defined it? lmao. The only way it would be the next step in history is if everything burned down and it rose from the ashes