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[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago (3 children)

The problem is that you won't ever get a full communist country, at least not for a very, VERY long time, because you always get those few fartweasels who end up hijacking it and turning it into a dictatorship. You need to eliminate that problem first, and with how the world is sliding into fascism, it doesn't look like we're any where near close to solving that dilemma

[–] [email protected] 7 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 children)

Read 'State and Revolution' by Lenin. It's quite short and not that bad a read. Addresses exactly what you are talking about.

[–] TokenBoomer 8 points 6 months ago

I thought I was still on Lemmy.world and was wondering why this thread was going so hard on theory. Carry on.

[–] TokenBoomer 3 points 6 months ago

Upvote for fartweasel.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago

Even when they don't turn it into a dictatorship, they may just turn it back into capitalism, like Russia did. And when that happens, they just sell all the old estates to the highest bidder, making them richer and turning them into oligarchs. And that becomes functionally equivalent to a dictatorship of the bourgeois.