Communism

It's because he kept dressing in red.

Food is not even a safe topic for me since I am vegan. There are no safe topics for me 😂

If I drink hard liquor, the non stop beating of the electoral reform drum is replaced with me raging about the bipartisan war on drugs/police state.

I still drink hard liquor now and then, just in my basement alone. Unfortunately I still can post here about it: https://lemmy.ml/post/19710976/13341382

Actually disagree, at least not higher-stage Communism. Higher stage communism requires pretty much all living generations on Earth to have never known Capitalism, and be so used to living within Socialism that the statist apparatus makes itself redundant and whithers away. This becomes self-perpetuating and stable.

Lower stage communism? Absolutely.

It isn't simply a matter of "confronting internal biases," just like you would not place a random modern worker into feudalism and expect them to be capable of tending the fields, producing for subsistence plus surplus to their local feudal lord, and producing all manner of household goods such as clothing, fences, and food, so too can you not thrust the modern proletariat into a higher stage of production without working through the transitional status of Socialism.

If there are communists who think communism can be attained in our lifetimes, I don’t know them. We’re not going to sell people a fantasy, some overnight utopia. Some places are now socialist, and more may become so in our lifetimes. But, as socialist states themselves will tell you, communism has not yet been attained anywhere.

I want to live in the commune with nuclear arms. To many shitters in the world as it is.

Communism is not attainable in our lifetimes as it will require decades upon decades of economic and social development. But we can take the first steps by seizing control of the state from capital and oppressing the actions of capitalists themselves. In other words, by creating socialist (or proto-socialist) states.

it depends on humans sharing and not being selfish and power hungry, which is a fantasy.

What about Communism depends on this, structurally? How, in any way, does Capitalism do better?

Even in a communist society, you'll have those who will get more than others and will be more "equal"

Where does Marx say that Communism is about equality?

"The younger the eastern European, the more they suffered under communism"

If everything is shared while living a communist way of life, that would include political power. This makes communism a direct democracy.

Does that sound like the country you're thinking of?

Which communist country, and when? It's hard to imagine anyone in any former communist country who was old enough to remember communism, and lived through the 90s, could think communism was worse.

No matter how nice communism sounds on paper it depends on humans sharing and not being selfish and power hungry

Those problems are a million times worse in capitalism where each capitalist is a dictator responsible only to themselves and each politician is responsible only to their capitalist donors.

I know a guy who was a child in east Berlin, he is a Trotskyist

COMMUNISM

I agree, telling people they are quiet is silly. The first guy also should've been talking about communism from the beginning.

At heart I'm a commi. The fantasy is stronger than the reality though.