Communism

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He asked for it.
- It's because he kept dressing in red.

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

How'd you get a picture of me? 🧐

Oh hey this is how i inform people about juche

the mouth really makes it

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"
- 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?
- Where and when?
  
  Let's make it more interesting. Name a place where communism has taken hold and has worked as intended without a ruling class and without resorting to human rights violations of their citizens
- What were your experiences living under a communist regime?
  
  Go look up communist countries and strongholds throughout Central and South America in the 70s-90s. Even people here calling me a liar don't realize that even when a country wasn't communist, there were regions, villages, etc that were fully controlled by communist forces. They raped little girls and took the boys to force into fighting so that didn't seem so socialist to me.
  And just because the opposition forces led by the west were just as brutal it doesn't make the guerillas any less culpable
- 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.
  
  You're weird. You're one of those weirdos people are talking about I think, going around questioning people's nationalities and race
- 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.
  
  What do you mean by a "revolution from the top?"
  
  If a revolution from the bottom happens, there will still be new leaders appointed from those at the bottom. And will soon become less like the rest of us, and will become just like the old Masters
- 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?
- Which communist country, and when? It's hard to imagine anyone in any former communist country who was old enough to remember communism, and lived through the 90s, could think communism was worse.
  No matter how nice communism sounds on paper it depends on humans sharing and not being selfish and power hungry
  Those problems are a million times worse in capitalism where each capitalist is a dictator responsible only to themselves and each politician is responsible only to their capitalist donors.
- I know a guy who was a child in east Berlin, he is a Trotskyist
- "Even when communism is not achieved, communism will not be achieved.' is probably the most common and basic declaration from people have yet to learn anything about it.
  
  Communism cannot be achieved. It sounds nice but humans suck.
  Reminds me of Star Trek. Great vision of the future, but it'll never happen cause HUMANS SUCK
- Of course they haven't, and while I'm happy to be proved wrong, I'm sure they're all enjoying the benefits of living in a democratic country while cosplaying communists.
  
  Do you think your bourgeois democracy is actually democratic? If you are for democracy you'd be a socialist.
- Authoritarian central planning sucks...
  Workers having shares in companies and or the means of production doesn't.
  
  Authoritarian central planning sucks…
  You hate it because it defeated the nazis or...?
  
  The soviet economy was insane(ly good)!
  https://youtu.be/Hcl3R-yARX8?si=Z2Us5pkG9a7FBPUw
  Well sourced easily digestible video on it.
- The fact that people are downvoting you and saying no no you didn’t actually live through that is fucking crazy
  
  I summed it up in my response to them, but essentially they have a confused idea of what Communism even means. It's perfectly possible for them to have grown up in a Communist nation, but 2 points stick out as confused:
  They believe Communism structurally depends on "good people not being selfish" without elaborating, and
  They believe Communism to be about some vague "equality," despite Marx arguing against said very notion.
  
  It isn't crazy if you know the first goddamned thing about what he's talking about. Because then you'd know he doesn't.
  
  Agreed, but I am sad that they don't choose to share any of those personal experiences that they claim are vital for understanding communism.
  Even if communist revolutions tend to fail for the same reasons most revolutions fail (a need for temporary authoritarian rule followed by fumbling the succession) anything that can help understand how and why something failed is useful.

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Anyone else remember Penn Jilette on Eric Andre?
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As a commi, I can't stand this kind of people... Like, is important and (sometimes even fun) to talk about this, but there is a lot more to life...
- COMMUNISM
- Did you miss the first frame, bud?
  
  Did you miss every other frame, pal?
- I agree, telling people they are quiet is silly. The first guy also should've been talking about communism from the beginning.
- At heart I'm a commi. The fantasy is stronger than the reality though.

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