Thomas Paine Flair: “Fuck it. Communism. No one should have that much financial power.”
IMF Flair: “Nationalize Twitter.”
All thanks to Elon.
:melon-musk:
wasn’t Thomas Paine already an early proto-socialist. Like how anarchy and direct democracy as political ideas can be traced back to the Puritan movement in England
That’s a slippery slope because you could call Aristotle or Adam Smith proto-socialists too. There used to be different assumptions on how labor and land were supposed to be used before capitalism really cemented itself.