TimeSquirrel ( @TimeSquirrel@kbin.social ) 27•11 months agoTechnically, none of these countries experienced “communism”. They experienced tankie-led hell holes. Never trust a tankie. They’ll ally with you to fight for “the people” and then stab you in the back when they get a taste of power and don’t need you anymore.
🦄🦄🦄 ( @Duke_Nukem_1990@feddit.de ) 26•11 months agoNone of the lower countries had communism.
Akasazh ( @Akasazh@feddit.nl ) 20•11 months agoTechnically correct. They were under Stalins Marxism-Leninism, which was supposed to be a placeholder until true communism could be implemented.
But it’s a bit disingenuous to split that hair in this thread. The irony being that the latter are all countries that got to experience the kind of gouvernemental structure that Lenin facilitated.
BeigeAgenda ( @BeigeAgenda@lemmy.ca ) 11•11 months agoYou can argue if they had sunshine scenario communism all day, but they certainly was under the oppressive thumb of USSR.
SpiderShoeCult ( @SpiderShoeCult@sopuli.xyz ) 14•11 months agoDo not feed the troll. Strange fellas, lying on the internet, arbitrarily defining communism to suit their rose-colored ideology is no basis for a system of debate.
True debate stems from a knowledge of history, past events and conditions that led to them, not some farcical comment (as the one you are replying to).
If I went around in communist times claiming I knew what Marxism-Leninism was just because I read a manifesto, they’d send the secret police after me.
BeigeAgenda ( @BeigeAgenda@lemmy.ca ) 4•11 months agoYou are right, I just couldn’t help it the bait was too great.
🦄🦄🦄 ( @Duke_Nukem_1990@feddit.de ) 10•11 months agoI didn’t say anything about communism being good or bad there, just that none of those countries ever lived under communism.
Catweazle ( @Catweazle@social.vivaldi.net ) 4•11 months ago@Duke_Nukem_1990 @BeigeAgenda, correct, the key is the sovereignty of the people, not that of a single person or a small elite, this would reduce the communist system to a mere fascist dictatorship just as rotten as capitalism called democracy and where banks and multinationals dictate the rules, thereby it is not a democracy.
PrettyFlyForAFatGuy ( @PrettyFlyForAFatGuy@lemmy.ml ) 8•11 months agoTrue Communism is impossible to sustain in the real world. it requires someone unimpeachable at its head. It affords too much power and no accountability to those in charge. Even if it were to start out well, sooner or later corruption would seep in. Communism is impossible while human greed exists
🦄🦄🦄 ( @Duke_Nukem_1990@feddit.de ) 18•11 months agoThere would be no one “in charge”. Communism and anarchy go hand in hand.
human greed
This is the lie that we have been fed all of our lives under capitalism. It’s so ingrained in us that some of us can’t even imagine a world of helping each other thrive instead of exploiting each other.
PrettyFlyForAFatGuy ( @PrettyFlyForAFatGuy@lemmy.ml ) 8•11 months agoAnd yet, whenever communism is tried, a tyrant rises to the top.
🦄🦄🦄 ( @Duke_Nukem_1990@feddit.de ) 8•11 months ago…which means that it isn’t communism. Come on, try to keep up.
PrettyFlyForAFatGuy ( @PrettyFlyForAFatGuy@lemmy.ml ) 6•11 months agoExactly, Which brings us back to my initial point… True communism is impossible… try to keep up…
🦄🦄🦄 ( @Duke_Nukem_1990@feddit.de ) 6•11 months agoYou didn’t say true communism is impossible, you said true communism is impossible to sustain. Why are you moving the goalpost instead of just taking the L? Lol
Dr. Jenkem ( @DrJenkem@lemmy.blugatch.tube ) English13•11 months agoCapitalism is impossible to sustain in the real world. It’s literally killing the planet which will result in the extinction of the human race.
PrettyFlyForAFatGuy ( @PrettyFlyForAFatGuy@lemmy.ml ) 1•11 months agoYup, what’s your point?
Dr. Jenkem ( @DrJenkem@lemmy.blugatch.tube ) English9•11 months agoThat Communism is looking pretty sustainable rn.
PrettyFlyForAFatGuy ( @PrettyFlyForAFatGuy@lemmy.ml ) 2•11 months agoNope, it’s still failed every time it’s been tried
Dr. Jenkem ( @DrJenkem@lemmy.blugatch.tube ) English4•11 months agoWhat is your suggestion?
Kwakigra ( @Kwakigra@beehaw.org ) 4•11 months agoThe main issue with words like “socialism” and “communism” is that the definition of those words depends entirely on personal political biases, and most people unaware of this assume their personal definition is the same definition used by the person they’re arguing with. The word “socialism” was in use even prior to Marx and has many definitions, and “Communism” is an ideal rather than an explicit governmental structure. That being the case, the word socialism can be understood to mean “the government acts in the interest of average people rather than solely for its ruling class,” “workers themselves own the means of production rather than individuals or institutions,” or “there should be some kind of welfare state.” Communism can be understood to mean “a series of self-governing autonomous communities in the absence of social or economic hierarchy of any kind,” “A marxist-leninist inspired system of state centralization which ostensibly governs on behalf of the people,” or “any authoritarianism of any kind taking place at any point in history.”
All this is to say if you find yourself feeling strongly for or against “socialism” or “communism” and are in conversation with someone with the opposite perspective of that term, try to establish a mutual understanding of what is being disagreed upon before engaging. For example, I agree that any system which lacks checks on leadership (or strongly depends on leadership in general) has fundamental issues but I am still sympathetic to socialism, communism, and anarchism which are ideals which have not yet been achieved sustainably or meaningfully.
neuracnu ( @neuracnu@beehaw.org ) 13•11 months agoThe photo of the USA Lenin statue isn’t accurate. It resides in the Fremont neighborhood in Seattle, where it frequently has its hands and body splashed with red paint to represent the blood on Lenin’s hands.
Just do an image search for it or check it out on google maps streetview.
Noughmad ( @Noughmad@programming.dev ) 9•11 months agoFrance never experienced communism?
OurToothbrush ( @OurToothbrush@lemmy.ml ) 9•11 months agoHmm, why do these fascist anti-communist regimes that the US propped up hate Lenin?
ratboy ( @ratboy@lemm.ee ) 1•11 months agoThe Poland statue is kinda sick though
GCostanzaStepOnMe ( @GCostanzaStepOnMe@feddit.de ) 5•11 months agoWtf I love capitalism now
zbych ( @zbych@szmer.info ) 5•11 months agoThis statue in Poland was few weeks long artist performance made few years ago near place, where Lenin’s statue standed in Nowa Huta until 1989.