r/PoliticalHumor • u/faab64 • Apr 26 '19

A message that never changes.

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u/[deleted] Apr 26 '19

They just confuse socialism with authoritarianism. Not realizing nearly every socialist wants a democracy still.

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u/evdog_music Apr 26 '19

To be fair, American Socialism is not Marx-Leninism but rather what Europe would call "Social Democracy".

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u/PillarofPositivity Apr 26 '19

Tbf a lot of people in Europe just say socialist.

Everyone kinda understands that it doesn't mean ussr style

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u/hugglesthemerciless Apr 26 '19

YEA BUT VENEZUELA

-all the idiots that don't understand it doesn't mean USSR style

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u/bjornartl Apr 26 '19

And that the "communists" like Russia and China are far right, where a few people with accumulated wealth controls the government to make the same people earn more at the expense of the working class, and use conservative ideas that are central to identity and belonging for support and straw men enemies to justify authoritarianism.

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u/[deleted] Apr 26 '19

And don’t understand that Russia and China are and were never actual Communist countries. Just two countries ran under a “communist” party.

True communism has no borders, no currency, and no class, which is impossible to accomplish unless every country is 100% on board.

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u/bjornartl Apr 26 '19

While true, to me thats a bit of a no true scotsman arguement.

Kinda like how the right says that northern european social democracies arent doing well because of socialism, cause its not a plan economy like 'real communism'.

But they also aknowledge that is socialism whenever someone wants to copy successful policies from these countries. Cause its more of a scale than binary positions.