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[–] [email protected] 124 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (15 children)

Ah yes, communism and democracy, directly comparable and not at all describing totally different things in different categories

[–] [email protected] 34 points 7 months ago (2 children)

It's actually disheartening that all communist countries become authoritarian. Theoretically with flat power structure, they should all become democracies. Maybe they ARE not communists.

[–] redempt 22 points 7 months ago

I mean, what we call "communist countries" were really founded with communism as an ideal and authoritarianism as the means to supposedly achieve that ideal. turns out the people they put in power to liberate them didn't want to give up that power willingly. shocker.

[–] TokenBoomer 5 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Everything we’ve seen thus far is socialism with a siege mentality. Every socialist revolution in the world has been attacked by capitalism through espionage, sabotage, embargoes, sanctions leading to resistance groups, assassinations and coups. Michael Parenti explains it quite well.

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[–] [email protected] 58 points 7 months ago (1 children)

The idea that the USSR and East Germany were anywhere close to communism is a joke. There were so many offshoots of communism that were just autocracies where the state owned all property that its meaning is pointless now. It's better to describe then as dictatorships.

[–] GladiusB 20 points 7 months ago (2 children)

As much as I agree with your communism comment the same can be said to our democracy. We are a representative democracy and choose people to choose for us.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Agreed. Most if not all democracies today are severely flawed. I'd also argue that the wall depicted here has more to do with these flaws than with democracy

[–] ASeriesOfPoorChoices 7 points 7 months ago (1 children)

‘Many forms of Government have been tried, and will be tried in this world of sin and woe. No one pretends that democracy is perfect or all-wise. Indeed it has been said that democracy is the worst form of Government except for all those other forms that have been tried from time to time.…’

Winston S Churchill, 11 November 1947

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 7 months ago

Only for the presidential election. All the rest are normal. We're definitely a representative democracy. Whereas none of the communist countries are anywhere close to Marxist communism.

[–] Delphia 58 points 7 months ago (3 children)

ITT: Tankies not realising they are in a shitposting community.

[–] hark 27 points 7 months ago

It's just a shitpost, bro, don't think about it, let me just make a shitpost covering a political topic, I'm not making a statement just a shitpost, bro.

[–] eskimofry 5 points 7 months ago

If it's a shitpost why do you defend it so much?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 7 months ago

I'm in this picture and I don't like it

[–] [email protected] 35 points 7 months ago (3 children)

Communism is an economic system, democracy is a political system. There are examples of democratic socialism and of capitalist dictatorships. Also, the word here is in fact socialism and not communism.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 7 months ago

Those words can mean those things, but communism is also used to describe a political system. After all, part of the definition of communism is statelessness which is entirely about the politics and not the economics (source).

Also, just as democracy might be used to describe a political system, it commonly taken to mean liberal democracy, and thus in most contemporary contexts implies an economic system of capitalism.

So I just think it depends on the context what people mean by these terms. Of course you can try to define communism only in economic terms, but since the term is so abused and "inflated" it's hard to claim it has any singular or absolute meaning.

Depending on who you are talking to, communism has practically opposite meanings, for example, in public schools in the U.S. they teach that communism is when all economic activity is controlled by a centralized state, which is ironically the exact opposite of how Marx defined communism.

The same can be said of democracy.

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[–] [email protected] 31 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

poor country vs rich country

[–] Sarmyth 27 points 7 months ago (3 children)

I feel like the poster didn't mean to infer American capitalism is so great we need a wall to slow people down from entering while communism is so shitty they need a wall to prevent people from escaping.

It's a strangely pro American capitalism meme for lemmy.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 7 months ago (7 children)

The tankies are asleep, post anti communist memes!

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[–] gAlienLifeform 24 points 7 months ago (2 children)

I wish we had a world where people could cross borders as easily as money does

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[–] andrewth09 18 points 7 months ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 5 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Mexico didn't build a wall. The Eastern Block did in the cold war. Think the Berlin Wall

[–] andrewth09 9 points 7 months ago (2 children)

Both the US and Mexico are capitalist democracies. The meme implies that Capitalists built a wall to keep Communists out.

It's an awkward meme that doesn't make much sense.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 7 months ago (3 children)

It doesn't imply that. It says that (some) capitalist states build walls to keep refugees out (like the US and in a way the EU) while (some) communist states build walls to keep (potential) refugees in (like the GDR)

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 months ago

It never implied the wall was specifically for communists.

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[–] qevlarr 18 points 7 months ago (9 children)

ML can choke on my dick. Fuck autocrats. Your vanguard party are just the next oppressors

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[–] Siegfried 15 points 7 months ago (1 children)

As refreshing as it is to hear ML keyboards cracking, this is not a meme, nor a shitpost and even being a meme, there is a community for that

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[–] bruhduh 10 points 7 months ago
[–] [email protected] 10 points 7 months ago

I'll take gross reductionisn for 500 Alex

[–] [email protected] 9 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Not the best description I have seen. Any wall that can keep someone out can keep someone in. Just have to change the system inside. The big problem, however, is that nobody understands the term communism and applies it to lots of things which are not. A totalitarian state is not communism. And a Christian nationalist state is no longer a democracy.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 months ago

The big problem, however, is that nobody understands the term communism and applies it to lots of things which are not

I think it's because terms used in real life often don't match their definition. The Democratic Peoples Republic of Korea is not democratic or a republic. The National Socialist Party were not socialist. The Chinese Communist Party allows billionaires to privately own the means of production. Capitalist America regulates, subsidizes, and bails out corporations instead of allowing a free market.

The real world is more nuanced than the terms used to describe it. It doesn't help that terms like capitalism, communism, democracy, etc, have gone the way of "literally". It can mean "literally" or it can mean the exact opposite of "literally"; it depends on context.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 7 months ago

Communist democracy:

[–] [email protected] 9 points 7 months ago (4 children)

All nation states suck!
#nobordersnonations

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 7 months ago (2 children)

It's economically beneficial to live next to a communist country. They'll build the wall for you.

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 7 months ago

Beetwen?

Beetnao.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 7 months ago

Tell me you don't know anything about communism without telling me you don't know anything about communism speedrun any%

[–] [email protected] 4 points 7 months ago

The direction of flow does not mitigate the inhumanity or blunt stupidity of the act.

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