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[–] [email protected] 22 points 1 month ago (3 children)

Downvote spam report: 1/4th of the downvotes on this one (so far) are from zero-content accounts.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 month ago

Who could have done this

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 month ago

zero-content accounts

🙄

Again with this. Just for context, how many of the upvotes are zero-content accounts?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Interesting. How do you find that out?

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 month ago

Admins can see voting patterns.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago

Admins can see who upvotes and downvotes, I'm pretty sure.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 1 month ago (2 children)

This implies the CIA disinfo was some kind of oopsie

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 month ago

The purpose was that the disinformation was so bad that it shocked even the professor

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 month ago

Agreed, the professor’s mouth and eyebrow should be flipped around.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I'd even replace communism with socialism. Since it's also vilified in the US, but it's a broader term which is, to me, more relevant nowadays.

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

What do you mean? Socialism is generally just the process of building Communism.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago (1 children)

There exists socialist theory outside of marxism-leninism

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago

Yes, there does, but the idea of a Socialism that would not eventually work itself towards Communism is silly, that assumes a stagnant system that cannot advance.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Well I'd say communism is a type of socialism, where the latter is the ideal to strive for a better society for everyone, to intervene to help those who cannot help themselves. Communism tries to achieve this goal by making the means of production into communal ownership. With the State enforcing strict wealth equality. But it's still socialism with economic inequality at the beginning but fair and strong wealth redistribution in the end: equity.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago (4 children)

This isn't really accurate. Socialism is the domination of the proletariat over the bourgeoisie, ie worker ownership of the Means of Production, and the path towards Communism, an eventual stateless, classless, moneyless society.

Are you familiar with Communist theory? Equity isn't the goal, fulfilling everyone's needs is.

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[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 month ago (20 children)

Communism works and has worked for thousands of years. People thrive when their needs are met. It's authoritarianism that doesn't work

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

When do you call a system "Communist" and when do you call it "Authoritarian?" Early-human "communism" isn't what Communists advocate for, instead Communists advocate for moving beyond Capitalism.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago (2 children)

authoritarianism has worked for thousands of years.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 month ago

just because the system isn't working for you doesn't mean it's not working

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Depends on the goal doesn’t it?

Authoritarianism archives incredible luxury and comfort for a very small portion of people.

Communism archives collective well being and minimized suffering.

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

communism always fails because it's authoritarian, that's the same reason the west, the east and everything else will fall

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