• Maggoty@lemmy.world
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    1 day ago

    I’m sorry I must have missed the part of Karl Marx’s writings where he said all peasants must be herded into death camps?

    But that’s even besides the point. Communism is a complete paradigm change and very few people are asking for that. Universal Education, Healthcare, and Income are compatible with well regulated market systems. Yeah there’s tankies that want a centrally planned economy run by an authoritarian figure, and there’s anarchists who want everyone to slot into a commune with no higher level of governance, (thus, Communism). But calling social reforms Communism is a bad faith argument and disinformation. Don’t be that guy.

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      7 hours ago

      I’m ex soviet living in a country where all the things you want are reality. And where those violent ones you don’t want were a reality. Only the latter part is being mostly idealized. There is as much normalization of violence going on in the left meme circles as there are in the right ones and I don’t get why it’s okay to be a faschist casually calling for mass murder of undesireables as long as the symbol on the red flag is yellow. Americans have always been completely out of touch with the world but this is getting a bit too much.

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        7 minutes ago

        If someone is using symbols to justify oppression you should first check if they aren’t actually an authoritarian.