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[–] RangerJosie@lemmy.world 53 points 2 months ago (1 children)
[–] RootBeerGuy@discuss.tchncs.de 13 points 2 months ago

It's because he kept dressing in red.

[–] lemann@lemmy.dbzer0.com 31 points 2 months ago

The car full of hammer and sickles in the background though πŸ˜‚πŸ˜‚ that's metaphorical gold

[–] Cowbee@lemmy.ml 20 points 2 months ago

How'd you get a picture of me? 🧐

[–] PolandIsAStateOfMind@lemmy.ml 19 points 2 months ago

Oh hey this is how i inform people about juche

[–] jenny_ball@lemmy.world 11 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

the mouth really makes it

[–] BaumGeist@lemmy.ml 10 points 2 months ago (4 children)

Fun Fact: Communism is actually an attainable goal within our lifetimes, but people would actually have to be open to confronting their biases against it (including hate for all its supporters)

[–] Cowbee@lemmy.ml 22 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Actually disagree, at least not higher-stage Communism. Higher stage communism requires pretty much all living generations on Earth to have never known Capitalism, and be so used to living within Socialism that the statist apparatus makes itself redundant and whithers away. This becomes self-perpetuating and stable.

Lower stage communism? Absolutely.

It isn't simply a matter of "confronting internal biases," just like you would not place a random modern worker into feudalism and expect them to be capable of tending the fields, producing for subsistence plus surplus to their local feudal lord, and producing all manner of household goods such as clothing, fences, and food, so too can you not thrust the modern proletariat into a higher stage of production without working through the transitional status of Socialism.

[–] davel@lemmy.ml 18 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

If there are communists who think communism can be attained in our lifetimes, I don’t know them. We’re not going to sell people a fantasy, some overnight utopia. Some places are now socialist, and more may become so in our lifetimes. But, as socialist states themselves will tell you, communism has not yet been attained anywhere.

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[–] Nuke_the_whales@lemmy.world 7 points 2 months ago (76 children)

Has anyone in the communism community ever actually lived under a communist regime? I have and that shit was not good. No matter how nice communism sounds on paper it depends on humans sharing and not being selfish and power hungry, which is a fantasy. Even in a communist society, you'll have those who will get more than others and will be more "equal"

[–] Cowbee@lemmy.ml 30 points 2 months ago

it depends on humans sharing and not being selfish and power hungry, which is a fantasy.

What about Communism depends on this, structurally? How, in any way, does Capitalism do better?

Even in a communist society, you'll have those who will get more than others and will be more "equal"

Where does Marx say that Communism is about equality?

[–] bloodfart@lemmy.ml 20 points 2 months ago (15 children)
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[–] Juice@midwest.social 19 points 2 months ago (5 children)

What were your experiences living under a communist regime?

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[–] prototype_g2@lemmy.ml 15 points 2 months ago (2 children)

It's funny because I'm pretty sure you haven't lived in a communist country either. So you're arguing that lack of personal experience invalidates all arguments in favour of communism, but your lack of personal experience living in a communist country somehow doesn't invalidate your arguments against communism. Yup, perfectly consistent.

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[–] tetris11@lemmy.ml 9 points 2 months ago (4 children)

A revolution from the top was always going to be bad. I think people in this forum are hoping for a revolution from the bottom.

[–] Cowbee@lemmy.ml 11 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (6 children)

What do you mean by a "revolution from the top?"

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[–] Vivendi@lemmy.zip 8 points 2 months ago

"The younger the eastern European, the more they suffered under communism"

[–] UltraGiGaGigantic@lemmy.ml 6 points 2 months ago

If everything is shared while living a communist way of life, that would include political power. This makes communism a direct democracy.

Does that sound like the country you're thinking of?

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