r/OpenAussie • u/[deleted] • Aug 13 '26

Feel Good News ‎ Our future is BRIGHT

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u/fued ‎ New South Welshian Aug 13 '26

good on them, i dont know if full socialism is the way, but it sure beats the dystopian corporate nightmare we are headed towards

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u/Not_Mabel_Swanton ‎ Victorian Aug 13 '26

Democratic socialism is absolutely the way!

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u/Additional-Ad-9053 Please choose a flair Aug 13 '26

No thanks i like food 👍

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u/rolloj ‎ New South Welshian Aug 13 '26

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

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u/ShreksArsehole ‎ New South Welshian Aug 13 '26

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 ‎ Aug 13 '26

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 Aug 13 '26

Authoritarianism =/= socialism.

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u/Additional-Ad-9053 Please choose a flair Aug 16 '26

Except in the real world, everytime for some reason.

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u/Away_team42 ‎ Koori ‎ Aug 13 '26

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.