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    anticapitalist views of society in general are eldritch brain horrors that peel back the veil of reality and reveal the utter putrescence of capitalist society in such a way that its horrors are forever unseeable and, for some, almost unbearable, as every single moment which passes bears witness to uncountable instances of preventable suffering through not just exploitation but incredibly callous disregard for the value of human lives, and for communists it’s that x10

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        In a sort of similar vein to the above comrade’s comment, you may enjoy these quotes:

        From Disco Elysium:

        The Deserter - “The mask of humanity fall from capital. It has to take it off to kill everyone – everything you love; all the hope and tenderness in the world. It has to take it off, just for one second. To do the deed.”

        “And then you see it. As it strangles and beats your friends to death… the sweetest, most courageous people in the world.” He’s silent for a second “You see the fear and power in its eyes. Then you know.”

        YOU - “What?”

        The Deserter - “That the bourgeois are not human.”

        From Carlo Cafiero’s summary of Capital:

        So the daydreaming worker arrived at home; and there, dined, went to bed, and slept deeply, dreaming of the disappearance of bosses and the creation of government workshops.

        Sleep, poor friend, sleep in peace, while hope still rests within you. Sleep in peace, for the disappointing day will soon come. Soon you will learn how your boss can sell their goods for profit, without defrauding anyone. He will make you see how one becomes a capitalist, and a large capitalist, while remaining perfectly honest.

        Now your dreams will never again be so peaceful. You will see capital in your nights, like a nightmare, that presses you and threatens to crush you. With terrified eyes you will see it get fatter, like a monster with one hundred proboscises that feverishly search the pores of your body to suck your blood. And finally you will learn to assume its boundless and gigantic proportions, its appearance dark and terrible, with eyes and mouth of fire, morphing its suckers into enormous hopeful trumpets, within which you’ll see thousands of human beings disappear: men, women, children. Down your face will trickle the sweat of death, because your time, and that of your wife and your children will soon arrive. And your final moan will be drowned out by the happy sneering of the monster, glad with your state, so much richer, so much more inhumane.

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      It’s such an apt metaphor. A horrifying tentacled mass called “capitalism” is puppeteering every society on the planet. Read a bit of leftist thought and you’ll start seeing it everywhere - read a bit more and you’ll perceive precisely how its tentacles are manipulating you. Try not to go mad as your perception broadens with every theory you imbibe.

      A few societies are aware of the being. They know its tentacles are upon them, and they’ve declared their intentions to throw off the beast and finally slay it. But whether their plots and schemes for defeating the monster will bear fruit or not, for the time being they can only overcome its influence in fits and starts.

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    This is basically me. I’m pretty quiet when socialising because I know if I start talking I’ll very soon start trying to set the world to rights.

    Food and beer are probably the only safe topics for me.

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      Food is not even a safe topic for me since I am vegan. There are no safe topics for me 😂

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      If I drink hard liquor, the non stop beating of the electoral reform drum is replaced with me raging about the bipartisan war on drugs/police state.

      I still drink hard liquor now and then, just in my basement alone. Unfortunately I still can post here about it: https://lemmy.ml/post/19710976/13341382

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    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)

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      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.

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      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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      Communism is not attainable in our lifetimes as it will require decades upon decades of economic and social development. But we can take the first steps by seizing control of the state from capital and oppressing the actions of capitalists themselves. In other words, by creating socialist (or proto-socialist) states.

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    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”

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      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?

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        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

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          Why don’t you just say where and when you lived under a communist regime?

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            Why are you so insistent I doxx myself to you? For a person defending communism you sure do seem to want to throw me in a dungeon for wrong think

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              I’m not the one who claimed to have lived under a communist regime. You did.

              Are you still living under a communist regime?

              Would simply stating where and when you live under a communist regime put you in danger?

              If so then why did you volunteer that information on a public Internet forum?

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          The downvotes say it all. No one in favour of it here seems able to have an honest discussion.

          If you are genuinely unable to see that any political system, no matter how great in theory, doesn’t translate that simply into reality because of human behaviour, then you’ve got some reading and thinking to do.

          The attitude towards communism here comes across like a cult. Present facts or a reasonable point of discussion, you get shouted down/strawmanned, othered, etc.

          Ironically, the very behaviour that stops things like communism working in reality.

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          China is the most democratic country on Earth, it has done nearly all of the poverty elimination that has occurred on this planet in the last fifty years, it has proven its ability time and time again to solve problems that vex capitalist regimes in humane and effective ways, it has proven to be resilient if not totally immune to the cyclical market shocks that every capitalist regime on the planet is regularly victim to, it has closed the technological gap and is now pulling ahead of the capitalist world in nearly every sector, its citizens are happier than the citizens of any other country and have the highest faith in their government institutions out of any other country…

          I could go on. But please tell me about TiAnAnMeN sQuArE and the UyGhUr GeNoCiDe like I haven’t heard those weak ass-arguments a million times.

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            China is also extremely capitalist, but yeah it’s really easy to pretend how great it is there when you’re so willing to completely ignore all the reasons it’s not

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              China is not “extremely” capitalist; its capitalism is intentionally limited. To paraphrase Grover Norquist, the Chinese government keeps capitalism to the size where it can drag it into the bathroom and drown it in the bathtub. It may appear massive & dominant to you, because 1) you see almost nothing but products by Chinese capitalist companies and 2) you’re not accounting for the full scope and size of China’s population and their production and consumption.

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            Why did you bring up China? Wasn’t involved in the conversation, doesn’t qualify as a communist nation, hasn’t claimed to be for a while actually.

            Sure China has done some impressive things but those two “weak-ass” arguments you brought up are neither weak nor small. China is an authoritarian state that abuses its people. You could unfortunately say that about many counties though.

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        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

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          what specific guerillas or strongholds are you referring to? its hard to learn from history without being able to name any dates, places, people, or any details at all. without those things it isnt history its just like a vibe. like you have bad vibes about communism, which youre entitled to i guess. i have a little bit more curiosity than that though. i think that if we arent discussing anything specific, then we arent discussing anything at all.

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            You want me to doxx myself but I’m not gonna bite. I do remember meeting a friend’s aunt who went full communism and joined the guerillas who were understandably fighting against a right wing fascist government backed by the west. And the guerillas were so happy when Russia started backing them, (this is when you realize we’re just brown people pawns for white people proxy wars). Once the money and arms started coming in, the commune suddenly became the high command and the grunts, and women like me friends aunt became sex slaves to leaders and commanders that demanded them at gunpoint. Nearby villages became empty after everyone was run off or killed by guerillas. In the end they became as bad as the fascists they were fighting. Their communist revolution never made it all the way, cause human nature took hold long before that.

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              it sounds like you hate human nature not communism. Anyway that sounds terrible, I wish you were able to give me more details so that I could try and learn from your friend’s family’s experience. I wouldn’t try to doxx you, I don’t have that kind of free time or energy, but I def understand the hesitation.

              I guess I would argue that calling something communism doesn’t make it so, and there’s all different strains of communism too. For example, I’ve often found myself working with Trotskyists who explicitly reject forming “communes” that could become cults, and guerilla groups to seize power through violence. Even if its good for the people to form militias, trots tend to believe it isn’t where the energy of the “vanguard” should be directed, and that instead people should seize political power and smash the state via those means. There’s no history I’m aware of of what you’re describing happening with Trotskyists, in fact there’s sort of a nasty history of trotskyists getting rounded up and killed by the sort of groups you are against.

              You can be a socialist and recognize the need to change the social order away from capitalism while still being suspicious of communism. Just because a guerilla group did something awful doesn’t mean capitalism is good (which you don’t say, you seem to have some anti imperialist critiques of capitalism yourself) or even that there is no alternative to capitalism. If this is the best system possible, the planet, all people are fucked. Something, someone has to fight against it. Capitalism can’t be reformed.

              Its interesting that your misanthropy seems to be directed at a system that has never existed rather than the system that actually exists. But I don’t know you so maybe that’s an unfair generalization. Anyway, thanks for your response, maybe next time we can have a more detailed discussion.

              Edited some clarity and tone

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      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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        You’re weird. You’re one of those weirdos people are talking about I think, going around questioning people’s nationalities and race

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          They want to know what you’re talking about to determine whether you’re full of shit. You’re weird.

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      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.

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          The BV’s were initially grass roots, along with other communists in Russia at the time, but after Lenin got control the policies all came from above with little to no input from the workers below, and the BV’s became the defacto only party.

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            That stands in direct contrast to the actual structure of the USSR, and a misunderstanding of Democratic Centralism. The Soviets were the organizational organ of the USSR, as shown here:

            Secondly, being a single party does not mean democratization lowers. Parlimentarianism obscures the material impact of a Worker’s voice. A single party system can be bad, such as in Nazi Germany, where there was little to no actual democracy. A single party system can be good, such as in the USSR.

            As per your previous statement that “most of us want bottom-up revolutions,” that’s correct, but “most of us” do not agree that the October Revolution was a “top-down” revolution.

            I recommend reading the following texts, if you have not done so already:

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                Gulag in Siberia

                Except during the years of World War 2, the Gulags had a better quality of life and lower risk of mortality than contemporary prisons in many much wealthier and more developed countries. Despite the enduring cultural legacy of the fiction novel Gulag Archipelago, the truth of the matter is that after the revolution the Communists reformed the Tsarist work camps into what were at the time the most progressive rehabilitation regimes in the world.

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        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

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            I think the only way it works is if you start chopping off hands and shit as punishment for corruption and that’s a whole can of worms, and there will still be certain people immune

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      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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      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.

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      "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.

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      Authoritarian central planning sucks…

      Workers having shares in companies and or the means of production doesn’t.

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          No, I dislike all Authoritarian regimes. I dislike single party systems.

          We’re discussing systems of the past of course, not possible variations or was a new Socialism moght structure its self.

          But the problem is that Capitalism isn’t going down without a fight, and if there’s a fight there will likely be an Authoritarian one party system after, that performs a period of white/red terror, that’s difficult to avoid.

          It’s a hard problem for revolutionary forms of Socialism.

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            No, I dislike all Authoritarian regimes. I dislike single party systems.

            Living in WW2 Belarus would cure you from that centrist hyperidealist nonsense. Or maybe not, there would be statistically 1/3 chance nazis would murder you.

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            an Authoritarian one party system after, that performs a period of white/red terror

            The one party system is going to perform white and red terrors?

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          Auth left and Auth right have had all of human history and they’ve blown it. Don’t you think it’s time for someone else to give it a go?

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            Its why they defeated the nazis, who had a 50-100 year industrialization lead when the USSR started doing a command economy. The USSR also ended up liberalizing, especially in its last decade, creating the circumstances for a coup that resulted in balkanization and massively decreased living standards.

            And all Eastern European countries experience explosive growth post communism?

            This is counterfactual

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              I thought a massive international effort defeated the nazis, including strategic bombing, embargos and lend-lease. Weird.

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                The USSR killed 80-ish percent of the nazi troops, and suffered 26 million casualties, mostly civilians exterminated by the nazis. They were mainly responsible for the victory and suffered the heaviest losses, including a lot of the lower level communist organization whose absence lead to the bureaucratic centralization (that Stalin opposed heavily before his death) that let corruption gradually take over the project.

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                  Yeah, when you organize your army based on politics and not on, you know, military capability, you end up sucking at war and need to make it up in numbers. You ignore intelligence of imminent invasion you let hundreds of thousands of troops get encircled and begging the Yankees for resources.

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              They defeated the Nazis by throwing conscripts into a meat grinder regardless of whether they even had a weapon, and by threatening to shoot them if they tried to retreat.

              That’s the nature of Authoritarian regimes. Not very working class of them.

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                They defeated the Nazis by throwing conscripts into a meat grinder regardless of whether they even had a weapon, and by threatening to shoot them if they tried to retreat.

                Enemy at the Gates is not a documentary, it’s a propaganda film. In true fact while the Soviets did have a large number of conscripts and did suffer supply issues early in the war, at no point were they sending under-equipped battalions into the front line to die for no reason, and the thing about shooting those who retreated only applied to officers who ordered a retreat without proper cause (you’ll find that every other army in World War 2 had a similar protocol).

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                They defeated the Nazis by throwing conscripts into a meat grinder regardless of whether they even had a weapon, and by threatening to shoot them if they tried to retreat.

                You are mistaking the movie enemy at the gates for a history lesson, or are absorbing myths that ultimately originate with that movie… During particularly desperate times troops would have to split rifles during training. General order 227 created penal detachments for officers who kept ordering retreats without cause, and created blocking units to turn back retreating units. They weren’t machine gunning conscripts in the back.

                Also even if not one step back was as US propaganda claims, every step back allowed the nazis more population to exterminate or enslave. The Soviets lost 19 million civilians, exterminated by the nazis.

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              Cool feels. The facts are that GDP has grown more than 1000% (not a typo) in the 30 years post communism.

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                Again, fantasy.

                Who calculated the GPD of a command-driven, non-capitalist state, and how did they do it? It’s incomparable using such a metric: apples & oranges.

                And regardless, GDP is a garbage metric. All sorts of unproductive income is included, things that are not part of the real economy.

                Finance Capitalism versus Industrial Capitalism: The Rentier Resurgence and Takeover

                Today’s national income and GDP accounting formats are compiled in keeping with this anticlassical reaction depicting the FIRE [Finance, Insurance, and Real Estate] sector and its allied rent-seeking sectors as an addition to national income, not a subtrahend. Interest, rents, and monopoly prices all are counted as earnings—as if all income is earned as intrinsic parts of industrial capitalism, not predatory extraction as overhead property and financial claims.

                When the socialist states privatized what had been public—which was nearly everything—and sold them at fire sale prices to the neocolonial capitalists of the imperial core, that would have been included in the GPD as well. What did that get them but a new class of local oligarchs? Just bonkers.

                If you compare the GDP of suddenly collapsed, suddenly capitalist states—that were being actively pillaged by the Global North—to their GDP 30 years later, of course line go up. But that’s a very different comparison to their situations pre-collapse.

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                  Is any metric that’s unfavorable immediately garbage? Life expectancy? Number of political prisoners? HDI?

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          Lots of Authoritarian one party economies are, Hitler’s, China’s, Ghengis Khan’s, Ancient Rome.

          You can really make leaps and bounds with forced labour and a Stalinist regime… But I don’t want to live under such a system, nor would I automatically trust how it’s applied.

          Here’s some photos of some gulag laborers digging the White Sea to Baltic canal for some extra bread and meat rations: https://allthatsinteresting.com/white-sea-baltic-canal

          Insanely “good” economies are often created from poverty, serfdom, slavery, and forced labour. That’s not how I’d define a “good” economy though.

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            Lots of Authoritarian one party economies are, Hitler’s, China’s, Ghengis Khan’s, Ancient Rome.

            Lol

            God I wish reeducation camps were a thing

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              Political prisoners are a thing.

              Gulags were a thing, labor camps have been a thing, vocational education and training centers, have been a thing, north koreas camps have been a thing, siberian labor camps have been a thing, pol pots torture camps have been a thing.

              Authoritarian one party systems tend to have political prisoners, and institutions, camps, or prisons where they’re dealt with.

              These are things the proletariat and lumpenproletariat (and other classes) get subjected too for political reasons, I’m saying I don’t want that happening. That it’s a bad thing.

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                You aren’t saying anything except bringing up scary terms you heard. Conspiracies are a thing. War profiteers are a thing. El Chupacabra is a thing.

                You’re just talking shit without any specific accusations. Just vibes.

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                  You’re free to look up these various systems of political punishment. Just answering 'theyre conspiracy theories ’ isn’t a convincing argument.

                  You have to win people to your cause if you want your systems to win.

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            Weird how the socialist command economies lead to a massive increase in literacy, life expectancy, women’s rights, access to education, doctors per person, decreased infant and maternal mortality, I could go on.

            Almost like there is a difference between a capitalist command economy like the nazis did and a socialist command economy. Wonder what the difference between those three word phrases are, hmmmmm 🤔🤔🤔

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            Just to note; Capitalism also has this problem of paying workers the minimum in order to transfer wealth to profit/owners.

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      The fact that people are downvoting you and saying no no you didn’t actually live through that is fucking crazy

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        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:

        1. They believe Communism structurally depends on “good people not being selfish” without elaborating, and

        2. They believe Communism to be about some vague “equality,” despite Marx arguing against said very notion.

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        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.

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        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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      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.

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        Do you think your bourgeois democracy is actually democratic? If you are for democracy you’d be a socialist.

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            No, capitalism vs socialism is; who owns the means of production, the capitalist class or the working class?

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          I haven’t stated my position. Yes, I think our democratic processes could be better in many countries.

          I also understand the reality that there is no simple 'one system" solution that is just going to miraculously fix everything.

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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…

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          The first frame is implying that they never really talked before someone pointed out that ‘they’re so quiet’.

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              Your comment seemed to suggest that you ‘can’t stand the kind of people’ who regularly never chime in with their opinion but when confronted about their silence open up a lot more; which seemed a bit odd to me so I just assumed you meant communists who are constantly vocal about their politics. But the first frame of the comic establishes that this person had never been vocal about anything much at all prior.

              Which is why I asked if you had missed or misread the first frame. Otherwise it’s just kind of weird to hate on the quiet folks.

              Unless I’m misreading this comic.

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                Right, I get you now.

                My comment was directed to people who are constanly talking about the same topic and do no speak about anything else and I specially have some extra annoyace for people doing that with politics. Even if I confront you with “You’re so quiet” and then you let it out, it will still be annoyed, no matter if I asked first or not. Like, me inviting you to open is very different than me signing up for a unending hangout-tracendent only-about-communism discussion…

                The comic is missing the frames with the other guy trying to change the topic and the other person perpetually stearing the conversation back to the same topic, which more often than not, I will entail some diaregard for the other party(s) in the convo.

                A: Man, I broke my leg B: aw shit, that must suck, right? because you can’t do the things you like I mean braking your leg in this shitty system, I wish we could have a system…

                A: Yo, look, I bought this really cool thing that I have been wanted for years! B: Cool! what does it do? ah… It was probably made by some slave in a sweatshop, you know? If we were in communinsm those would probably be made by some happy people instead!

                (Dumb examples, I know, but Im no writer.)

                I do admit, that me starting my comment with “As a commie” do makes my comment kinda obtuse and nonsense…

                I stand by it tho. This kind of person is just very annoying to me, independent of the topic. Im quite vocal about my political views, but there’s too much in my life to only talk about the one belive I have.

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      I agree, telling people they are quiet is silly. The first guy also should’ve been talking about communism from the beginning.