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we’re never gonna escape the right wing accusations with all the upvotes on this post 😩
people will brag about being a communist and support communism and people are literally dying in communist countries. the sad reality is that communism is horribly ineffective in countries and often mis executed
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Anonymous 5w

lmao

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Anonymous 5w

they also act like communist countries could only be fucked up because of communism itself and not millions of other factors. i’m not a communist myself, but judging a system off of its corruptions is dumb. it’s like saying democracy could never work because trump is breaking the laws to do what he wants.

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Anonymous replying to -> OP 5w

I beg yall to research the White movement

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Anonymous replying to -> #1 5w

Right like hmm maybe it was all the sanctions and coups by imperialist world powers (namely the US) that caused them to fall. It’s like these people have never studied history and US global interference

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Anonymous replying to -> OP 5w

nuance is hard for some people, things can only have one cause! and one effect! 💀

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Anonymous replying to -> #1 5w

erm that same logic applies to capitalism then. because in theory capitalism should be a way for everyone to earn wages based on their workload and benefit the consumer and the invisible hand would keep things in check. but obviously capitalism isn’t great either right now.

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Anonymous replying to -> #1 5w

there just isn’t a way to implement communism effectively. PEOPLE HAVE TRIED. it absolutely kills progression, self advancement, consumer benefit and quality, and results in mass poverty as people don’t need/want to work because there’s no benefit in it. no self own businesses. no saving up for a better car. extremely limited foreign trade. it only works on very very small scales like private communes. which you CAN do in america…. even the most progressive countries are still capitalist

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Anonymous replying to -> #2 5w

and as someone who knows people who have literally escaped communist countries, they’re not exactly human rights advocates.

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Anonymous replying to -> #2 5w

Communism lifted the largest number people out of poverty in history. None of that is true, it’s anticommunist propaganda. Many people have tried and it HAS worked in multiple corners of the earth. There is a benefit to working if you’re actually in community and care about them…, capitalism divorces us from that community. Why would you want businesses to exist to ONLY benefit one person or a board of people? When in communism the means of production are owned by the workers and equally split?

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Anonymous replying to -> #2 5w

the same logic does apply to capitalism. that’s exactly what i’m saying. capitalism is FLAWED. in all likelihood, communism is FLAWED. i don’t think we’ve found a perfect system because i don’t imagine that one exists. BUT—to say that leftism cannot be implemented more effectively than it has been is an insane jump. & the deaths of people under a political system are not only caused by the political system. especially when there is rampant corruption within the government, among other factors.

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