• iByteABit [he/him]
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    -31 year ago

    Which is a very uninformed (or intentionally misleading) thing to say, because Communism from it’s very beginning has always assumed that there are bad actors and always will be, hence the whole dictatorship of the proletariat thing.

    • @Aqarius
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      81 year ago

      That’s, to put it mildly, not what that phrase means.

        • @Aqarius
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          31 year ago

          The idea (in theory) was that once the proleteriat seizes power, they would act akin to a dictator in ancient Rome, who would be given the extraordinary powers to handle extraordinary circumstances (such as, in this case, the (re)construction of society). It’s not implying totalitarian rule.

          • iByteABit [he/him]
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            41 year ago

            It’s also the state power to oppress counter revolutionaries and the former high class, often through violence and forced labour. That to me is a form of dictatorship, even if it does provide better conditions and freedom to much more people than the newly oppressed.

            I’m not saying it to praise it or condemn it, I just think it’s a fact at this point.