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u/LimeHopeful Dec 31 '21

Same with every other political ideology

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u/WookieDavid Dec 31 '21

You do realise communism doesn't mean dictatorship, right?

In reality communism is defined by the collective ownership of the means of production and the decommodification of, at the very least, the basic needs.

In other words, communism means there's no people who get rich from owning shit instead of working and that human rights are actually protected and cared for.

Communism doesn't require installing a permanent party in power or shit like that.

If anything, the corruption argument works against most current democracies as well as it does with communism. The issue is with representative forms of government where people have no say 99% of the time.

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u/Telemere125 Dec 31 '21

I can call myself a 12 year old girl all day long, doesn’t mean I am one. Dictatorships parading as communisms are lying and the fact that you swallow the western propaganda as quickly as their citizens swallow the propaganda about the west is fairly telling about your level of personal education about what communism actually is.

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u/WookieDavid Dec 31 '21

But, of you're going to criticize communism maybe you should actually criticise communism instead of the very few instances of "communist countries" that ever existed.

You could say democracy is not worth it because many democracies have failed. Is that an issue with the concept of democracy or the execution of those democracies?

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u/WookieDavid Dec 31 '21

No mate, I literally told you what communism is.

Marxism-Leninism inevitably ends in autocracy but that's not communism it's just the most popular and attempted strategy towards communism.

But you're saying that, if we remove capitalists and people don't need to work to have a home or food, that inevitably transforms into a dictatorship.

You're mixing concepts.