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[-] [email protected] 22 points 10 months ago

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

[-] [email protected] 15 points 10 months ago

Who could have done this

[-] [email protected] 7 points 10 months ago

zero-content accounts

🙄

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

[-] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago

Interesting. How do you find that out?

[-] [email protected] 12 points 10 months ago

Admins can see voting patterns.

[-] [email protected] 5 points 10 months ago

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

[-] [email protected] 21 points 10 months ago

This implies the CIA disinfo was some kind of oopsie

[-] [email protected] 14 points 10 months ago

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

[-] [email protected] 12 points 10 months ago

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

[-] [email protected] 17 points 10 months ago

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 10 months ago

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

[-] [email protected] 6 points 10 months ago

There exists socialist theory outside of marxism-leninism

[-] [email protected] 3 points 10 months 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 10 months ago

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 10 months ago

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 10 months ago

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 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months 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 10 months ago

authoritarianism has worked for thousands of years.

[-] [email protected] 9 points 10 months ago

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

[-] [email protected] 8 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months 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 10 months 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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