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When Your Rulers Ignore Voters But Are Terrified Of Protesters, That Tells You Something
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this post was submitted on 12 May 2024
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As seen in all communist regimes and to a lesser degree most non communist ones too.
It's almost like there's no correlation between types of government and types of economy ๐คท
Almost like giving people to much unchecked power is a bad thing not because of the economy type but because people.
democracy on socialist places is done more through popular participation. leaders should be afraid of the masses, its how democracy is really made.
and if we had more of it now we would probably be achieving many socialist-leaning leftist policies instead of the current status quo. hell most of the rights we still have were achieved that way.
Just to be THAT pedant. There have never been communist regimes. There are authoritarian, regimes who like to talk about the concepts and misuse the word constantly. While doing the least communist sort of things one could imagine. But those are Marxist leninist and not communist. It's like magats larping as patriots.