[a speech bubble comes from the left]
Would you please consult the evil chart

[a hand, also coming from the left, is holding a document that reads]
HOW EVIL IS COMMUNISM?

[a graph shows EVIL LEVELS sharply rising once Before communism becomes After communism]
[below the graph, a drawing of a smiling bald eagle is surrounded by the USA and confederate flag]
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Methodology: vibes

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  • Pajonk@szmer.infoEnglish
    1·
    3 days ago

    I’m curious, question to all of you who know very good what Marx and other people wrote about communism.

    What in your opinion is bad or wrong or what you don’t like in communism. I’m not asking about what was wrong with Soviet Union or China, I’m asking only about the ideology.

    And it might not be realistic, it’s too idealistic and so on, but this is too general answer. And we know that it helped people in countries like Russia, or China, thanks to the revolution live of a regular person got way better, that person got access to education, schools, higher chance to achieve something in the life and so on. We all know that. Revolution was a people answer to systematic exploitation for many generations.

    With facism, nationalism, authoritarian ideologies, neoliberalism it’s easy. It’s based on exploitation and whole system is based on a ruling class, and lower class that is nothing more than a slave nation. So let’s not talk about these systems.

  • village604@adultswim.fanEnglish
    23·
    3 days ago

    It doesn’t help that historically, the major communist countries were also extremely authoritarian.

    Like, communism is great on paper, but humans with cluster B personality disorders exist, as do those who blindly follow them, so anything we come up with will be corrupted eventually.

    • Bad@jlai.luOPEnglish
      6·
      3 days ago

      Major capitalist countries are extremely authoritarian, the issue is not inherent to any ideology or mode of production.

      Capitalism has the need for a strong privately owned military-industrial complex to protect the assets of its ruling class. This complex needs to sell weapons to sustain itself financially, so violence, war, repression, imperialism, colonialism are natural consequences of capitalism and don’t even need any “personality disorders” to happen.

      “But authoritarian communism happened” gets an “eh ok sure whatever” from me given the state of the capitalist world, only a few elites within the imperial core are living a life free of authoritarianism right now (and that’s only because they don’t really notice it).