• FluffyPotato@lemm.ee
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    I was in my early 20s when the Soviet occupation collapsed here, the victims here were everyone not high up in the party.

    Sure, capitalism fucking sucks but pretending the USSR was anything other than just bourgeoisie rule is delusional. The oligarchs were just called the communist party then.

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      6 months ago

      I don’t understand why anything anti capitalism these days is automatically communism. It’s such a large swing from one side to the other. I just want my taxes to pay for healthcare, infrastructure, and education instead of wars and prisons. I want to stop getting fucked by corporations that have infinitely more money than I can ever imagine. I don’t think that makes me a communist. I’m just anti-fucking-the-people. Capitalism can fuck people. Communism can fuck people too. I support Corpo-Politico-Celibacism. Stop the fucking.

      Edit: Okay, fuck the people. You guys must have this figured out.

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      shock therapy was not a socialist, but a capitalist plan after the ussr ended.

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            You should look into south america in the 70s and 80s. The CIA’s unrestrained human experimentation in the regiom perfected this ideological soft power superweapon or “strategic ideological construct”. Trying to find exactly what these kinds of things are called.

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    So the tens of millions of people that died under communism were all landlords? Wow, what are the chances of that

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      Communism is a bit different than what those “communist” countries had. If anything it was socialism, but that still doesn’t fit completely. These “communist” countries are just one-party states in which the government controls the economy. The idea of putting the working class in power is useless if you create a government that can make decisions against the opinions of the working class. Socialist one-party state ≠ Communist democracy

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          Communism is a society without social classes, money, or a state.
          Feel free to name one so-called communist country that implemented that.

          The eastern block was as communist as North Korea is democratic.
          They did however socialize ownership of factories etc, so they did have an authoritarian form of socialism.

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      People are starving every damn day under Capitalism and there is no famine going on. This isn’t the dunk you think it is.