MeanwhileOnGrad
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Meanwhile On Grad
Documenting hate speech, conspiracy theories, apologia/revisionism, and general tankie behaviour across the fediverse. Memes are welcome!
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that's like saying socialists are tied to national socialism....
when a power hungry group adopts a title that's incongruous with it's actions, like, DPRK, it's always in an attempt to distract from their actions and policies.
Communism has quite the track record of being authoritarian. I don't know of a single Democratic nation that is communist.
it's a cute title for an authoritarian state. even the soviet union would hardly be classed as communist in anything but label.
Then inform me, what country is properly communist? It seems fascism and communism are not that far apart. They both involve the government seizing control of assets. The USSR was communist even if it doesn't mean your definition.
Communism and Fascism are poles apart… like literally diametric opposites.
Authoritarianism can turn up on either side, although it’s worth noting that Fascism cries out for the “big strong leader” type ~~oppressor~~ saviour.
The Communist Manifesto suggests there have never been any real communist countries. Communism, it proposes, comes after capitalism - according to dialectic theory. Most/all countries that are/were called communist went there straight from agrarianism.
If you want to know how AES (actually existing socialism) countries view this then I suggest you ask one of the theory reading brothers and sisters around here to explain - I’m not really into politics and political theory.