• Quacksalber@sh.itjust.works
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    1 year ago

    The ideal of communism, maybe. Yet every country that called itself communist became authotarian. Why is that? Evil tongues might suggest that the ideal of communism simply fails to prevail when confronted with reality.

    • 小莱卡@lemmygrad.ml
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      1 year ago

      Reality being imperialist countries bombing you back into the stone age for not licking their boots.

      Stuff must get done to achieve ideals, building a strong state to defend from imperialist threats is basic marxist theory, literally 101 stuff. Marxism is built on materialism not idealism.

    • onkyo@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      1 year ago

      No country has claimed to have achieved communism. Many other places have tried but it’s usually crushed by capitalist or sometimes even by states claiming to be socialist. It’s also a really simple and tbh ahistorical explanation to claim that communism didn’t work simply because “it was confronted with reality”.