• Cowbee [he/him]@lemmy.ml
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    7 months ago

    It’s more that anticommunists judge Socialist states by their inability to fulfill Communist ideals at the level of development AES countries are at, as though they exist in a perfectly frozen picture absent history and trajectory.

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      7 months ago

      Yeah sure dude, existing in a context is why people condemned police states.

      ‘People who don’t know the difference between these terms must be using the more-recognizable one as an oblique criticism of the gap between theory and practice’ is the most .ml take I have ever seen.

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        7 months ago

        Condemning the USSR and PRC for not achieving a global stateless, classless, moneyless society is ridiculous. This isn’t a gap between theory and practice, lol. Communism isn’t anarchism.

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          7 months ago

          … do you understand that criticism can come from outside your own belief set?

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            7 months ago

            Yep, but I also understand what Communists actually advocate for and understand that countries building Communism should be judged like every society: with respect to trajectory, not as a snapshot.

            Communism isn’t a goal because it is stateless, classless, and moneyless. Rather, Communism is a goal because the process of getting there is to create a society benefitting all and directed for the working class, by the working class.

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              7 months ago

              Ignoring what other people mean is not a yes.

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                  7 months ago

                  Making up what you’d rather hear is worse.

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                    7 months ago

                    I made up none of what I said, and you engaged with none of it either. I addressed everything you said, to which you plugged your ears.

                    You’re clearly not trying to have a discussion, just sound off on your opinion.