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[–] [email protected] 27 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

"Communism has poven track record of working"

More like a proven record of not working. How many communist countries are still around today? How many of those are places you would want to live? If they are communist they are also heavily authoritarian. At the end of the day communism "works" if you only believe what the state propaganda tells you. The reality is that forcing people into jobs and trying to eliminate competition ends up hurting diversity of thought. It is no surprise every communist revolution is a violent one. Add that to the fact that the farms completely fell apart and were not producing much output and you have a disaster that has to be covered up.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago (4 children)

Though, real talk. I do think communism will become standard in the future, but not in our lifetimes, of course.

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[–] [email protected] 26 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (3 children)

Ironic for a group that currently obsesses over anti-genocide to be pro-genocide;

"Even if every absurd fabrication that the anti-communist propagandists like to parrot about the millions supposedly killed by Stalin, Mao, etc. was true, those numbers would pale in comparison to the number of lives they saved, "

also

Creating gender equality

Until Stalin reversed it all lol (there are also no high-ranking women in the Chinese government -- ever)

[–] [email protected] 20 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

What we really need is a female let totalitarian dictatorship.

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Source: The Onion

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

See, out of a somewhat displaced curiosity, I'd actually like to see that. Would it turn out the "same" as previous mainly patriarchic autocracies? Would it collapse? Any interesting policies?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

Ask Bangladesh, Sheikh Hasina was widely considered to be an autocrat.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

I'm guessing it didn't go too well?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

To put it mildly. But what are few massacres and disappearances between friends.

And in democracies you also have examples like Thatcher. The problem with the patriarchy is the patriarchy in general, not the genitals of the person in charge.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

be the change you want to see

[–] [email protected] 19 points 2 weeks ago

im not even going to touch their disdain towards imperialism while also praising modern-day china. i'd drown in the irony. Quick, someone, throw me a buoy!

[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 weeks ago

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/15590383/

Yep, no domestic violence or sexist culture here, none whatsoever, China is a glorious wonderland of sexual and gender equality /s.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 weeks ago

Correlation ≠ Causation

Perhaps it just so happened that Mao took control around the same time medical sciences obtained a break through in some field.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Relatively speaking that graph does show Asia having closed the gap between the global average. But it's a wee bit hard to isolate 'China' from 'Asia'.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 weeks ago

When you add western nations, they're far above both the global average and China.

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