• @[email protected]
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      Is communism even possible without authoritarianism?

      Edit: lol I pissed off the tankies

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        If everything is shared under communism, that would include political power. thus (imo) communism is a direct democracy.

        Edit: forgot what thread I was in. What the hell does communism have to do with US authoritarianism?

        • @GrammarPolice
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          Ideal communism is what you described. Not communism in practice

          • @[email protected]
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            The awful ones are awful. They’re allowed to take power in the current system. We have awful rulers and the awful people who support them. We need only be aware of this phenomenon to mitigate it. Your solution appears to be not accepting possible solutions, which is just inaction. How does inaction stop awful people from destroying the planet?

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              They’ve been allowed to take power in basically every system that has ever existed. The entirety of human history is a showcase of the fact.

              Sure, we might be able to be better on small scales, but there’s a reason communism has never worked, and will never work on a large scale.

              It looks great on paper, but not so much in practice. There’s always going to be evil people who are only interested in personal gain at the expense of others who are charismatic enough to dupe the population into letting them and participate in the committing of atrocities.

              Humans are just too easy to corrupt. I think it’ll likely be our Great Filter.

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        Yes. Communism was never meant to be authoritarian anyway, it’s a classless, moneyless, stateless society. Only some people don’t believe in the stateless part.

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        You’re not wrong though. While it might be possible to do in theory people are not that nice or kind, you’ll never get everyone to share what they have and not own or try to possess things without an authoritarian government forcing it. Maybe in a more ideal world you could achieve it but that’s not the world we live in.

      • @marcos
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        It’s not possible with authoritarianism either :)

        Unless you count the version everybody insists on calling “social democracy” nowadays. That one can be done.

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        Traditional communism probably isn’t possible but it’s near guaranteed that no one in Lemmy wants communism like it’s traditionally taught

        Edit: the fuck are you doing in a post about USA authorianism