• Realitätsverlust
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    010 days ago

    Communism is when you get executed for having a different opinion than the great leader.

    • @[email protected]
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      010 days ago

      Communism is an economic concept not political. Technically it is possible to have a democratic communist country

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        09 days ago

        Marx literally calls for a genocide in his manifesto. It might not be political in your view, but communism is inherently a genocide.

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          08 days ago

          Marx literally calls for a genocide in his manifesto.

          Others have asked for sources. I know it’s not true. If Marx called for genocide, centrists would love him.

            • Cowbee [he/they]
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              08 days ago

              No, he did not. I’ve read it 5-6 times over the years, not once did he call for genocide. You can show what you think is a call for genocide, and I’ll explain why that’s not the case at all.

                • Cowbee [he/they]
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                  08 days ago

                  Was the French Revolution a “genocide” against the Monarchy? Further, revolution doesn’t necessitate killing every member of the bourgeoisie. Further still, you are likening relations to Capital to immutable characteristics like ethnicity.

                  You’re deeply unserious.

          • @[email protected]
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            08 days ago

            You can read the full manifesto here https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/download/pdf/Manifesto.pdf But let’s go through it step by step.

            1. Marx divides all people into classes and then declares that people in a specific class are better than people in other classes. This is covered in his first part called “Bourgeois and Proletarians”. Direct quote:

            the proletariat is its special and essential product

            1. The second part establishes that there are even better representatives of “good people” called “Communists”. This whole section is dedicated to dehumanising everyone else and showing that Communists are the superior people to everyone else.

            2. He then openly calls for violence multiple times finishing with:

            their ends can be attained only by the forcible overthrow of all existing social conditions.

            You can replace “Communists” with “Arians” and “Bourgeoisie” with “Jews” and you’ll get Hitler’s manifest. Same shit.

      • Cowbee [he/they]
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        010 days ago

        Politics and Economics are interrelated, and you cannot genuinely separate them. That’s even why Marx studied Political Economy, not just Economics.

        Further, Socialist states run by Communists are democratic, just in a very different manner. Here’s a diagram of how Soviet elections were handled, as an example:

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          09 days ago

          I never said that they aren’t interconnected, i just said that it is possible to have a communist democratic party. If the political system is broken then no matter good how an economic system is it will fail

          • Cowbee [he/they]
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            09 days ago

            All Communist parties practice Democratic Centralism, and all AES states run by Communists have some form of socialist democracy. I am not sure what you are trying to say by saying it’s “possible,” rather than simply being possible, it’s by far the established norm. When you say “democracy,” do you mean the specific, say, US form of democracy, or the ability for the citizenry to have legitimate control over policy?