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[–] [Deleted] 0 points (+0|-0)

Isn't a central idea of communism that there is no profit?

[–] ScorpioGlitch [OP] 0 points (+0|-0) Edited

The central idea of capitalist business and accounting is that there is no long term profit. That's really and literally Accounting 101 and is something you learn in the first 2 weeks (along with "If a business is only breaking even, it costs more to close it.")

Socialism is basically that there are no owners except "The People." This cannot happen without a government forcing it through threat of violence and imprisonment. While the comic has a communist logo, it's really a socialism quote. They want the positive without realizing that any failures also belong to the people.

Communism is where the government owns everything and the people own nothing. The system is run by the government and it eventually fails because they have to assess every company for its cost and efficiency and quality and location. The system soon bogs down because no one can efficiently allocate that many resources to every need and eventually becomes a system of grift and graft which leads to only the people in power having money and resources.

While the two economic systems are very different, the "pro-socialist" group is really pro-communism because in their twisted, spiteful logic, they are angry that anyone else has more than them and in the process of "getting everything for free," they are willing to have everything taken from everyone else not because they shouldn't have more but because "no one should have more than me and I want to hurt them for it." The only way to have that is "big government" which, Surprise!, that's the democrat party.

Hence, the communist logo with a socialist quote is correct.