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[–] 4 points 11 months ago (5 children)

How many communist countries have you seen?

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  • [–] -2 points 11 months ago (4 children)

    Probably not enough, care to share any countries I should look into

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  • [–] 7 points 11 months ago (2 children)

    Listen man, just look into the histories of countries that have had communist revolutions, look at what changed after, and look at why they failed. Often times they improved the lives of the working class, and then were destroyed by capitalist interests. There’s outliers like Cambodias Khmer Rouge and Romanias Chowchesku (I’m not going to even try spelling his name correctly) but you have to remember that history and context matter, and that communism is still just an ideology that has differing effects based on execution and the external forces putting pressure on these countries. It was called the Cold War, not the Cold Everybody Try Shit and we will see what works. Capitalist interests had already been deeply entrenched in world economics and power before communism began to take any meaningful positions of power during the Industrial Revolution, and all of these contexts, interests, and events matter.

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  • [+] -7 points 11 months ago (1 child)

    As I said such negative external and internal forces will always exist, if your ideology can't stand against it in practice then it only works in theory. I wish things were different, but I'm not gonna pretend all the answers lie in this sole other system, people need to learn what they can from communism and apply that to a different system that could stand a chance

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  • [–] 5 points 11 months ago

    In other words “no, I will not put in the effort to learn the history and nuance of the way our society works, I’d rather just repeat shallow propaganda I heard and declare myself king genius of alwaysrightville.” Got it.

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