The country with over 20% of the world's prison population and a highly militarised police force that routinely carries out extrajudicial killings of ethnic minorities is not ever described as "authoritarian". Somehow.
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At least they managed to become the 24th-least corrupt country..by legalizing all but the most blatantly declared bribes.
Having military bases all around the world is not authoritharian somehow either.
The US runs a system of 40+ slave labor camps, and have over 30k ppl in immigrant prison camps most of whom haven't committed a crime, but it's not authoritarian!!!
Yeah, that's how bad it is in actual authoritarian countries . . .
this bit extends to western marxism too
They address this consistently and in their original texts. They start authoritarian to ensure a smooth transition as capitalism can take advantage of smaller communes. Once everyone is converted they then decentralize. Trust me bro, it'll work this time. /S
why are people downvoting this?
Perhaps because they take exception to characterizing all of the Actually Existing Socialisms as “authoritarian” in the first place, and I’d agree with them. It leans into “horseshoe theory” and the anticommunist Western Left’s conceptualization of “totalitarianism.”
perhaps they think you can vote imperialism away
Because they're brats with no ability to self reflect and be realistic
Bro please lets try communism one more time bro please I promise it will be different this time bro no I wont camp all lgbtq and genocide an entire ethnic minority bro I've changed
Are you talking about the US there? Or 1930 Germany maybe? Or about any western country in early 20th century?
Erm pushes up glasses that wasn’t real communism.
I mean, maybe we can do it better next time. We know more than ever what not to do.
Great ideology when you have to be specifically taught to not systematically murder homosexuals and ethnic minorities. Reminds me of this other ideology what's it called?
Christianity? Oh wait, they’re not taught against but rather towards hate and murder of homosexuals and minorities.
As an example sure, but that wasn't quite the thing I was referring to mate
lol, obviously it was the whole “every internet argument will come down to nazis if it goes on long enough bit”.
Just also pointing out that humans generally tend towards hatred and violence of any kind of “other” under most forms of civilization / community.
It's just that fascists like nazis and commies tend to do it more often than normal people
Ackshually there is a more peaceful communism that will totally work once everyone universally adopts it and never changes their mind or exploits its multiple inherent flaws.
What is that image?
the TLDR version; in WWII the Americans would look at bombers that returned to base after doing flight missions, and decided based on their damage where to add armour to future bombers. I.E. they looked at surviving planes to decide how to better protect planes, instead of looking at crashed ones.
Two words: Human factor.