On stuff outside of lemmygrad, we are receiving a lot of hate, especially by those who just moved from Reddit. Guess they lost their hidden privilege at Reddit as their rhetoric used to be almost universal over there, while genzedong and our other subs get censored and banned. And now, on lemmy, their stuff isn’t universal, as we are more prevalent here. Seems like they really want that hidden privilege back
It’s kind of an extension of the communist party being ‘the vanguard’ of the worker movement and that the societies which communist revolutions took place wasn’t really capitalist (Russia was more agrarian) so an intermediate step was required to move onto a ‘real’ communist society. Enter the ‘dictatorship of the proletariet’, purpose of is to move the country along and set up the requirements for communism. This dictatorship would then naturally go away as the country moved to communism. After Stalin took power the dictatorship took on other facets that basically made it a permanent feature.
So to answer your question it’s because it’s deemed necessary to have a ‘ruling class’ and to have hardship to eventually move onto communism.
Hmm. I was afraid so. I’m not sure how I feel about that. Sort of feels like pretext to me.
Perfect communism could probably only work with a small group of people so it’s pretty much a constant state until a mass extinction event happens. …all the while you do in fact have a shitty ruling class.
Luckily there are other left ideologies that are more palateble than leninism and marxist-leninist, like Democratic socialism, anarchism and such. Lots of reading can be done 😃
Democratic socialism is the platform that seems most doable for our current situation. It’s not that I am un read. I only finished high school, but i try to self educate. Lots of work to be done for sure during this blip of a life.
No no, I didn’t mean it like that, I don’t consider myself unread but there is so much information and theories regarding these topics I’ve probably not been exposed to a tenth of all topics related to it. I am happy I live in a Nordic country where social democracy has been a huge influence in our politics and as a result our state organization
Yea I’m American and it seems that here, you really have to want to break out of the stream to dig into thought provoking stuff. They do a good job at a systematic level to keep you dumb as shit. Luckily I did, and there is just so much to know, and I’ll never learn it all 😫