quote it then, smart guy

the commies made lemmy dumbass

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I don’t like Amazon but I mean this does pretty much defeat porch piracy

the Chinese citizenry stood up for themselves in 1949

the communism understander has logged on

There should be an option for communities to form unions between them of some sort, or at least a client-side option to combine communities into a single big one

what does “actual communist” mean because you sound mad snobby

People in the comments with a completely fictionalized idea of Lenin as some kind of libertarian hippie who hated Stalin’s “authoritarianism” vs people in the comments with a completely fictionalized idea of Lenin as a “counterrevolutionary” (lol) or despot

I’m honestly still not sure what you mean by science didn’t exist at the time or what context you might be referring to

You aren’t supposed to build communism, we are supposed to build socialism, only when generations are reared in the social conditions of the socialist mode of production, and the international conditions allow, and the productive capacity allows, can the transition from socialism to communism take place.

Basically we are too far off from communism to build it directly and to predict the fine details of what it may look like, we need to build socialism first

tldr “I don’t care about your opinion because my opinion is right and I don’t have to back it up”

It’s insane how dismissive you manage to be while also not substantiating any of your claims in any meaningful way aside from vaguely gesturing at communism itself or saying that it’s not worth talking about

you keep saying “communists don’t know this or that about communism” and that you’re trying to discover what “communism might look like” when I told you in my first comment that trying to predict the minutia of communism is utopian

science didn’t exist at the time

LMAO what???

I smell butthurt. If you think that stateless(without any autority) and utopian society is possible today or in future for human species(we know today. Power-hungry, greedy, selfish and materialistic, which then turns into power-hungry rulers that always use communist ideology for their gain. Always dictatorship. Always tyranny.) then there are the doors and go say this fairy tale to some idiot.

Incredible how you call me butthurt but don’t substantiate any of your claims whatsoever, just slinging insults as an argument. My what mechanism would communism always lead to tyranny? What mechanism makes “greedy selfish and materialistic” people destroy socialism from within? Do you think that Marx’s ideology, a strictly and explicitly materialist one itself, wouldn’t consider people are materialistic?

No law enforcement? I cannot find this now, but police is literally tool of state. It would have different form in truly communist society and that society would basically treat itself as one big family so I am lazy to think how this would work at all.

Police aren’t the only form of law enforcement that could ever exist. if you’re too “lazy” to think outside the box, whatever, but don’t blame communists for doing it.

Factories and shops? You do realize that you would still work under real communism, right? Communist regime here prided itself at work. Everyone had to work. We even had anti-parasitic laws where police would start to look for you, if you missed the job for 3 days. It might have different form (so not factory or shop), but that is how it would roll. “From each according to his ability, to each according to his needs”. You work and then you take what you need. Like one big family. Does not work. Even family has authoritative figure that “corrects” your needs. Also, common ownership in family only works, because you know them.

Yes I’m aware you would still work under communism, but you are once again using the conditions of capitalist production and just placing them in the communist mode of production assuming they wouldn’t be fundamentally altered by the substantively different economic conditions. You never lived under communism, at best you lived under socialism, and most of your peers statistically prefer it to capitalism.

I assume we are both workers and I give exactly zero shit, if you are alive or not, which means that I will never share property with you, because I have no reason to do so.

Communism is not an empathy-driven system, so your whole line about not caring about me is pretty pointless. What property do you even have to share? Are you going to resort to the “toothbrush” argument?

COPE and ideological language. “scientific socialists” sounds like another cope. Let me guess. Bogus science, bogus theory, bogus future predictions.

Scientific socialism was a term coined by Engels to describe marxism, is this your first time hearing it? You list out a bunch of “bogus” but can’t seem to substantiate those claims. Maybe if you could you wouldn’t have to “guess” that they’re bogus?

First, there are no capitalist ideals

LMAO, patently false. Capitalism is its own ideology too with its own theory and proponents and ideals.

Education was tightly controlled by communists here. After coup in 1948, they basically seized the whole educational apparatus. Especially colleges that were then meant to promote communist ideology. Education is necessary for communist society to run.

Once again you prove your lack of understanding of Marxism by not understanding the distinction between communism and socialism.

I think I already mentioned it above. Human error of communist ideology. You need opposite of what people currently are. Educated, caring, altruistic, etc. Utopia.

You have still failed to explain how exactly people not being perfect undermines socialism. It seems like you think you can hide your lack of substance behind snarky self-righteousness but you’re not making any actual criticism besides venting your obvious animosity towards socialists

citation needed

What’s utopian is painting a picture of the minutia of what communist society will look like, that’s what you’re doing now and what every Marxist repudiates

No state, no money, sure, because that’s seen as a resolution of the contradictions in class society and therefore a logical conclusion

No law enforcement? Factories and shops? You’ve made up your own image of communism in your mind and have decided that’s what everybody else thinks, and use your own utopia to discredit scientific socialists

Why would someone living under communism have to educate themselves on communist ideals? People living under capitalism don’t educate themselves on capitalist ideals, they take it completely for granted because that’s the status quo

yeah but like how does that undermine socialism lol, the system is driven by self interest, you get from the system what you put into it

as opposed to capitalism where you just earn whatever your wage is regardless of your actual productivity

what about involving corruptible people undermines communism? by what mechanism?

being from eastern Europe doesn’t automatically make your position on communism any more credible, especially when statistically most of your peers disagree with you

Also it’s really hilarious how you claim that communism is more accessible to westerners than social democracy, like ???

I’m pretty sure the people who praise communism understand it better than you do

what makes such a system impossible?

yep and just as I thought it’s based on a fundamentally flawed understanding of socialism or communism

Neither system has everybody rewarded the same no matter how hard or little they work

This didn’t even happen in the Soviet union, it’s just theoretically, practically, and historically incorrect to think that’s how socialism works

comment section frustratingly filled with McCarthy-brained liberals who have never critically examined their preconceptions about communism

does anyone using the “human nature” argument even know what they’re saying?

what about “human nature” or “humans aren’t perfect” undermines socialism or communism? by what mechanism?

it feels like it’s a talking point that means absolutely nothing when viewed critically, and is only mindlessly repeated because it sounds cynical and “smart”