• SoftestSapphic@lemmy.world
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    The political compass was a psyop to legitimize authoritarianism and pretend that leftist movements could be authoritarian.

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      So explain all those leftist movements that ended up creating dictatorships like the Soviet Union and the PRC.

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        But they weren’t even Scotsmen!

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        I’m sorry I have to be the one to tell you this, but calling a country communist doesn’t make it a communist country, that would require implementing communist principles which are inherently at odds with a top down autocracy.

        Leftist ideologies are not compatible with authoritarianism.