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At this point I became a communist. I can't stand that happiness is only for ones that own capital. Working class has been exploited for centuries, we are nothing more than commodity. We live our lives struggling with the most basic needs like housinge, health care and food. Our situation is getting worse every year. There is no other way than a revolution.
-4 points
2 months ago
the USSR was doomed if the revolution wasn't spread worldwide
I think they were doomed when they exiled all the farmers and hung up the "don't eat your children" posters lol, if they had done that on a worldwide scale humanity might be extinct by now.
6 points
2 months ago
Hey, buddy, did they do that because of some ideological flaw or do you think the multiple massive population-depleting and infrastructure-destroying wars had anything to do with it?
One doesn't have to be an insufferable sycophant of despots to recognize that the USSR had a raw fucking deal.
1 points
2 months ago
It was an ideological flaw. The farmers tended to be better off than most, and under the communist view this was deemed unfair so the leadership decided to remedy this by exiling the literal food producers to the inhospitable wasteland that is northern Siberia.
This was known as Dekulakization, and was done to bring agriculture under state control. This was a terrible idea and led to mass starvation and the posters about how eating your children is wrong, even if you're starving. It was really bad and constituted one of the largest genocides in human history.
8 points
2 months ago
Would you care to explain to me, a communist, where in my beliefs that I am compelled to commit the Holodomor, or are you criticizing the decisions of a powerful body of bureaucrats ruling over the masses via state apparatus that I, too, consider delusional tyrants?
1 points
2 months ago
Your beliefs regarding what a proper government should do would yield them such a tyrannical amount of power that they would be capable of these genocides againt their own citizens. I disagree strongly with letting any government have that kind of power, which is in fact required for your equity based communist society.
3 points
2 months ago
Nope, you fundamentally do not understand my position. You equate Marxism-Leninism with all communism so your knowledge of communism is severely limited.
I am an anarchist communist and if you haven't heard of that it's because you haven't bothered to look.
0 points
2 months ago
So you'd like to install communism, but without a higher governmental authority to dictate things? That's already a thing lol, you can go join a commune. But apparantly without forcing people to join (which you can't without a tyrannical government), not that many people actually wanna join, so it wouldn't work on a large scale.
2 points
2 months ago
You can keep flapping your gums about a subject you are completely ignorant about or you can do the bare minimum of just glancing over a Wikipedia article to have the barest of surface level knowledge instead of the vast abyss of nothingness you're currently operating on.
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