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That is authoritarianism. Indeed, you have a valid point, except that communism in fact only is an economic theory and does not implicate anything on other area
by ceayo 8mo ago
That is authoritarianism. Indeed, you have a valid point, except that communism in fact only is an economic theory and does not implicate anything on other areas of government. There is no difference between a capitalist authoritarian and a communist authoritarian except that a communist actually has a story (i.e. a fairy-tale) to sell to their people.
- 0x3444ac53 8mo agoCapitalism also has a fairy tail to sell it's people tho?
- dekhn 8mo agoOf course. All successful large-scale political movements have underlying narratives that only loosely correlate with reality.
- drcongo 8mo agoVery much. It's basically: look at all these lovely billionaires, one day you'll be one of them too!
- nailer 8mo agoYes, when countries move from communism to capitalism, poverty, infant mortality, unemployment and every other bad metric goes down.
- breppp 8mo agothe problem with communism in Russia has been that the minute the economy theory inevitably fails, you now have to starve the farmers, and when they don't agree with being starved you need to send them to a gulag
- ratrace 8mo ago> communism in fact only is an economic theory and does not implicate anything on other areas of government This is unbelievably naive.