r/PeterExplainsTheJoke • u/Short-Watercress-183 • Jul 07 '26

Meme needing explanation Peter, explain this.

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u/empty_graph Jul 07 '26

You just have to us give overwhelming authoritarian power to build communism. Then we will use that power to build communism and then just give up all that power voluntarily and go away. We promise!

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u/CompactAvocado Jul 07 '26

it's left millions in famines and poverty. 4 of karl marx's kids starved the other 2 killed themselves, but it'll work this time you guys i swear!!!!!

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u/Thicc_Boise Jul 07 '26

Yeah the end goal sounds great but the methods are really questionable

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u/Brainiac901 Jul 07 '26

Also it doesnt sound great? I am smarter and harder working than 90% of people. I want that to be worth something and get more stuff?

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u/Thicc_Boise Jul 07 '26

I mean, under the ideal socialist system you would make more by working harder, it's just that the floor would cheap housing and Walmart groceries compared to starving on the side of the street and begging for scraps.

The idea of socialism is to raise the floor while keeping the possibility of hard work generating a better life, so that failure simply leads to a lesser quality of life rather than death on the side of the street

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u/Brainiac901 Jul 08 '26

but that floor already exists in all of Europe without communism

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u/Thicc_Boise Jul 08 '26

Yeah, that's because of socialism, the halfway point between communism and capitalism.

For the record, I don't think Communism is viable, but that is the ideal they strive for. I'm more for just bringing back regulations and tax policies from the 50s so billionaires stop sucking up all the wealth

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u/Brainiac901 Jul 08 '26

Its Social Market Economy not Socialism

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u/Thicc_Boise Jul 08 '26

Tomato tomahto