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[–] 12 points 8 months ago (4 children)

Capitalist dictatorship (IE liberal / bourgeios "democracy") by definition is corrupt, in that it is a form of goverment where propertied and rich interests control the country, to the detriment of its exploited workers, who have no say or representation in their government. You're "free" to yell into the void as long as your complaints don't affect anything, at which point your movement will be crushed violently.

Its pure projection that liberals call every other form of government that challenges their rule a "dictatorship", and rely on decades of ingrained anti-communist cold-war propaganda to cement it.

Unfortunately many people accept their propaganda willingly without challenging the cold-war dogma, or looking into how actually or previously existing socialist states had functional, substantive democracy, not the fake "democracy in name only" that liberal countries are selling you.

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  • [–] -3 points 8 months ago (3 children)

    I never said that I was a liberal. If anything, I consider myself a market socialist since anything needed to survive shouldn't be comdified for capital.

    I'm simply saying that giving one man absolute power whether it be political or through wealth will inevitably lead to corruption. After all, the meme states that tankies are "always right", and I'm assuming that by tankie they mean the authoritarian left like Stalinism, Maoism, etc.

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  • [–] 4 points 8 months ago*

    Here is a declassified internal CIA memo from 1956 that literally says Stalin did not have absolute power and people who think he did don't understand the Soviet system

    The idea that socialist heads of state are kings is ludicrous and ahistorical, a product of western movies and TV during and after the red scares

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  • [–] 4 points 8 months ago

    I’m simply saying that giving one man absolute power whether it be political

    This is standard anti-communist propaganda that unfortunately happens to work on gullible people. It's related to medieval era witch hunting, where you:

    1. Create a legend of a supremely evil / nefarious thing, you want to demonize. IE the devil, leaders of revolutionary movements like Robespierre, Stalin, Castro, Mao, Kim Il-Sung, etc.
    2. Claim that all people are under the dominion of this sole power, which removes their humanity, and ability to reason or think like you do.
    3. Carry out societal-wide demonization and extermination campaigns, to terrorize any potential sympathizers.

    Its a really effective tactic that lets you blame a single entity, encourages conformity and intentional ignorance, lets westerners ignore the functioning democracies of socialist states, and the mass movements that supported these various leaders.

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  • [–] 3 points 8 months ago

    "Market" Socialism is not necessary. Socialism pursues a dictatorship of the proletariat, not the total eradication of the bourgeoise. This means that socialism has to have some form of private ownership and thus some form of market.

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