mf - story #5270 - Your interpretation

posted by dennisn on October 4th, 2009 at 8:21PM

Your interpretation of the soc-described-by-caps diagram is exactly correct. How do you figure it's open to different interpretation?

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posted by Nylorac on October 4th, 2009 at 8:45PM

Well, I don't. But I showed this image to a lot of people, and got some other interpretations ... that I didn't agree with, so I didn't remember them.

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posted by dennisn on October 4th, 2009 at 8:26PM

The depiction of capitalism by socialists is misleading. If they mean the gun is state regulation and corporate-subsidy (corporatism), then sure. But if they mean "denying terrible-propagandized-state-education" is the same as holding a gun to one's head -- that's simply wrong. I guess this kills the joke, but that's reality.

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posted by Nylorac on October 4th, 2009 at 8:44PM

>>"denying terrible-propagandized-state-education" is the same as holding a gun to one's head -- that's simply wrong

Yeah, that can't possibly be it.

I want to take the gun as symbolism of the simple unwillingness of the capitalist to share, and the negative view that a socialist would have with that.

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posted by dennisn on October 4th, 2009 at 9:00PM

That's what I meant -- they think unwillingness to share is the same thing as holding a gun to someone's head -- and that's their fucked up rationalization for picking up REAL guns and forcing others to share. They invent imaginary poetic guns to justify their real guns. At least state-capitalists (ie. dictators) are honest and consistent. Ugh.

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