• Silar@lemmy.mlBanned
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    22 hours ago

    To be fair, I’m not endorsing capitalism. Capitalism is the 21st century blight as communism was in the 20th.

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      Thing #1 bad. The thing that destroys the thing #1 and solves the problems created by it is also bad. I swear centrists are the peak of historical illiteracy! Communism was never achived, you idiot! Communism is the end state where every society on earth has overthrown capitalism and has become stateless, moneyless, and classless society. Before that it’s socialism: the transitory phase of fully-realized communism. There was no fully-realized Communism in the 20th century. It was Capitalism vs socialism. Socialist states work towards Communism. So what you call socialism is also an ‘early phase communism’. And Capitalism was also the blight in 20th century. As it was in the 17th, 18th, and the 19th century, idiot.

      Go read a fucking book, kid. I beg you! 🙏 Your lack of education embarrasses me.

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        Go read a fucking book

        I don’t think just “a book” is a good advice for deprograming the anticommunists, the bookstores and libraries are full of anticommunists lies pretending to be true by virtue of nearly entire academia of anticommunists and state/publishing market censorship of communism.

        Like in Poland we had something like 5 communist publications in 36 years, of which three were printed in very small numbers, one was accidental selfown by illiterate succdems and one was highly contextual. For comparison Orwell shit or Ossendowski slander against Lenin has literally new edition every year.

        You would need to be more specific, unless you want them to read Pipes, Montefiore or one of the million other propagandists of capitalism.

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      Socialism was never a blight, while capitalism in the 20th century absolutely was, and had already reached the imperialist stage.

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        16 hours ago

        I can get onboard with socialism. I understand the need to have a strong social safety net. But many here seem to be falsely conflating socialism and communism.

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          How can you not know what socialism is if you’re gonna bark all fucking day long about it? How sad are you?

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          Socialism isn’t safety nets, it’s a mode of production characterized by public ownership as the principle aspect of the economy with the working class in control of the state. Communism is a post-socialist mode of production by which all of production and distribution have been collectivized, are oriented towards satisfying the needs of everyone, and the state, class, and money have withered away. States like the PRC, DPRK, Vietnam, Laos, Cuba, Nicaragua, Venezuela, the former USSR, etc are socialist, not communist yet, even if most of those are governed by communist parties.