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  • Contravariant@lemmy.worldtoComics@lemmy.mlCommunism
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    11 days ago

    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.














  • Contravariant@lemmy.worldtoPolitical Memes@lemmy.worldBoth sides!
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    2 months ago

    If you place killing an ideal beyond implementing your own you’re making exactly the same mistake.

    The best we’ve come up with is to try to ensure people are educated and well informed and only a majority can make certain decisions. Not all countries are doing too well on all 3 (heck the U.S. doesn’t even manage to ensure decisions require a majority) but if an ideal gets accepted under anything resembling those conditions then killing the bigots is no longer an option.



  • Contravariant@lemmy.worldtoPolitical Memes@lemmy.worldBoth sides!
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    2 months ago

    You can pretend all you like the problem is that there have been leftist wack jobs that very much did exterminate people for political gain.

    Things would be so much easier if we could simply argue about ideology without anyone getting the ‘clever’ idea that you can simply exterminate everyone who disagrees and end up with a harmonious society of people all working towards the same ideal.