• Contravariant@lemmy.world
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    3 months ago

    Agreed, but I am sad that they don’t choose to share any of those personal experiences that they claim are vital for understanding communism.

    Even if communist revolutions tend to fail for the same reasons most revolutions fail (a need for temporary authoritarian rule followed by fumbling the succession) anything that can help understand how and why something failed is useful.

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        3 months ago

        For a revolution to succeed you need the power to remove any people in power that oppose you, doesn’t get more authoritarian than that.

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        3 months ago

        authoritarianism is infinitely preferable to authoritarianism + communism + famine + repression of speech etc etc