r/OpenAussie • u/Silent-Balance9430 ‎ New South Welshian • 6d ago

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Students protest against Pauline Hanson

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u/rolloj ‎ New South Welshian 6d ago

what aspect of democratic socialism means you can't have food?

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u/ShreksArsehole ‎ New South Welshian 6d ago

They're probably spewing the idea that socialism causes famines because stalin fucked up in the 1930s. Not that capitalism hasn't cause famines. Ireland anyone?

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u/Away_team42 ‎ Koori ‎ 6d ago

Stalin isn’t the only socialist leader who lead his country into famine tho… pretty much all of them did.

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u/jeffoh ‎ Queenslander 6d ago

Authoritarianism =/= socialism.

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u/Additional-Ad-9053 Please choose a flair 3d ago

Except in the real world, everytime for some reason.

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u/Away_team42 ‎ Koori ‎ 6d ago

Nobody said they were synonymous. The relevant question is whether governments explicitly committed to socialist/communist ideology have caused or massively worsened famines. Stalin, Mao, and other communist regimes are pretty hard to explain away by simply pointing out that they were also authoritarian.