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Explaining communism to a Romanian:

“So imagine stealing…”

Nicolae Ceausescu: Stealing from capitalism is not like stealing out of our pocket. Marx and Lenin taught us that anything is ethical, so long as it is in the interest of the proletariat class and its world revolution

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[–] 26 points 4 months ago*

me when im taking out a heap of IMF loans like ill never have to repay them blackbeard-writing

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    Wikiquote says that this quote comes from "Red Horizons: Chronicles of a Communist Spy Chief (1987) by former Romanian intelligence chief Ion Mihai Pacepa. ISBN 0895265702"


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    It's more that ethical theory has a tenuous grasp on contextual morality, and therefore even systemically ethical actions can contextually be deeply immoral, which is why focusing on writing about and deriving endless hypotheticals and thought experiments to 'determine the truth value between ethical systems' (as the deotologoists and utilitarians of the era were always doing) is an intellectual dead-end, like arguing how many angels can fit on the head of a pin.

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  • [–] 4 points 4 months ago

    Ceausescu is a blight on the communist movement and a disgrace.

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  • [–] 3 points 4 months ago

    I went to school with one of the grandkids of the Romanian ruling family.

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