There’s never been an actual communist government. As much as those countries like to say they’re communist, that doesn’t make it true. They’re authoritarian, and you’re buying their propaganda if you think they’re actually communist.
They are buying propaganda, but in this thread they are selling it. They’re a bad faith actor, disinfo bot, or standard issue moron. The only hard part is knowing which one.
If every “communist” government ever turned out to be authoritarian, you might want to ask yourself if there is some fundamental flaw in communism that makes it so it always turns out that way.
Also, Marx literally called for a “dictatorship of the proletariat”. If that isn’t authoritarian, then IDK what is.
A bunch of Marxist-Leninist governments turned out to be authoritarian, as well as fermenting cult-like behavior in smaller ML groups. That’s a reason to drop that whole branch. Has nothing to do with leftism in the broad view.
Meanwhile England created a man-made famine in Ireland and oversaw 15 of them in India, while the US straight up did the worst genocide the world has ever seen and is driving the climate catastrophy which might end up killing most of the humans on earth. Not defending socialist states, but there’s not even a comparison here.
You’re missing the point. This isn’t about which form of government is better, it’s about the fact that governments themselves are liable to produce far worse catastrophes than the businesses they’re supposed to be regulating, and every time you vote for giving the government more power to punish those you hate, you are also giving it more power to punish yourself.
Since leftists tend to also condemn those things, as well, what the hell are you on about?
Leftists LOVE to defend big government, particularly if it’s communist.
Meanwhile, communist governments are responsible for some of the worst man-made natural disasters in history.
https://thediplomat.com/2014/10/how-the-soviet-union-created-central-asias-worst-environmental-disaster/
https://www.cnsjournal.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/The-Environmental-Record-of-the-Soviet-Union.pdf
https://foreignpolicy.com/2020/07/27/chinese-communist-party-environment-co2/
https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/can-europe-make-it/romanias-unsolved-communist-ecological-disaster/
There’s never been an actual communist government. As much as those countries like to say they’re communist, that doesn’t make it true. They’re authoritarian, and you’re buying their propaganda if you think they’re actually communist.
They are buying propaganda, but in this thread they are selling it. They’re a bad faith actor, disinfo bot, or standard issue moron. The only hard part is knowing which one.
If every “communist” government ever turned out to be authoritarian, you might want to ask yourself if there is some fundamental flaw in communism that makes it so it always turns out that way.
Also, Marx literally called for a “dictatorship of the proletariat”. If that isn’t authoritarian, then IDK what is.
A bunch of Marxist-Leninist governments turned out to be authoritarian, as well as fermenting cult-like behavior in smaller ML groups. That’s a reason to drop that whole branch. Has nothing to do with leftism in the broad view.
The Lemmy devs are explicitly Marxist-Leninist, but you know that, right?
Meanwhile England created a man-made famine in Ireland and oversaw 15 of them in India, while the US straight up did the worst genocide the world has ever seen and is driving the climate catastrophy which might end up killing most of the humans on earth. Not defending socialist states, but there’s not even a comparison here.
You’re missing the point. This isn’t about which form of government is better, it’s about the fact that governments themselves are liable to produce far worse catastrophes than the businesses they’re supposed to be regulating, and every time you vote for giving the government more power to punish those you hate, you are also giving it more power to punish yourself.