The Picard Maneuver@piefed.world to People Twitter@sh.itjust.worksEnglish · 2 days agoHow could this happen? media.piefed.worldimagemessage-square150linkfedilinkarrow-up1935arrow-down16
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minus-squareubergeek@lemmy.todaylinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up5arrow-down5·1 day agoCommunism tends to work pretty well until the US shows up with their military, and stamp it out.
minus-squareAuth@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2arrow-down2·1 day agoBy working “pretty well” you mean mass starvation, mass murders of the civilian population and complete government authoritarianism. Communism’s death toll rivals ww2 and thats with no foreign intervention.
minus-squareubergeek@lemmy.todaylinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·17 hours ago By working “pretty well” you mean mass starvation, mass murders of the civilian population and complete government authoritarianism. Communimsm and authoritarianism are opposites. Cannot have authoritarianism with a stateless and classless society. Communism’s death toll rivals ww2 and thats with no foreign intervention. What’s that death toll? Because in the US alone, capitalism kills about 40k per year, due to gatekeeping things like healthcare.
minus-squareAuth@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·edit-26 hours agoIf that’s your opinion then no matter what I say you are going to hit me with the “true communism has never been tried”
Communism tends to work pretty well until the US shows up with their military, and stamp it out.
By working “pretty well” you mean mass starvation, mass murders of the civilian population and complete government authoritarianism. Communism’s death toll rivals ww2 and thats with no foreign intervention.
Communimsm and authoritarianism are opposites. Cannot have authoritarianism with a stateless and classless society.
What’s that death toll? Because in the US alone, capitalism kills about 40k per year, due to gatekeeping things like healthcare.
If that’s your opinion then no matter what I say you are going to hit me with the “true communism has never been tried”