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0 pointsDetrytus2y ago0 comments

>> Communism pretty explicitly involves the proletariat seizing the means of production, but go on.

So, by that definition, all publicly traded corporations are communist :) I mean, significant part of their shares is traded on stock exchanges and owned by anonymous members of proletariat :)

EDIT: Also, think about all those Silicon Valley companies that pay their employees in stock options. Marx would be proud :)

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arrosenberg2y ago

Show me the distribution, if it's fairly even across the population I might agree. Aside, I would hardly call Vanguard or Blackrock "the proletariat" - they are clearly entities that represent and profit off of the bourgeoise.

derelicta2y ago

Publicly traded companies are more like oligarchies. The real wealth creators have no control over the said companies, only the oligarchs we love to call "shareholders".

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