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[–] [email protected] 16 points 8 months ago (2 children)

Unless you're over a 100 years old you lived in a totalitarian system masquerading as Communism.

[–] [email protected] -4 points 8 months ago (1 children)

See how you didn't even have to ask which country it was? Because a 100% of communist countries became dictatorships ridden with poverty for the working class and gold plated luxury for the ruling class.

I'm happy now somewhere in the middle in this terrible, terrible capitalism. Oh, and I'm free to leave anytime I want, if I don't like it.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 8 months ago

So do 100% of Capitalist countries without a strong democracy. In fact capitalism is the one designed to do so by concentrating capital.

When we figure out communism or socialism there's a really good chance it's a strong democracy that prevents it from falling into totalitarianism. Will it be a bunch of anarchic communes in council? Lol no. Will workers share profit equally with executives? Probably.

[–] [email protected] -5 points 8 months ago (2 children)

Funny how that's always the result.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 8 months ago

Funny how that's a fallacy, and there have been countless largely communist organizations of human labor over history, which lasted just as long as capitalist society.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 8 months ago

Yeah I don't think we've figured out a good way past the charismatic sociopath problem. The best thing we're going to have in the short term is a democracy with a strong emphasis on socialism.