• @nixcamic
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    481 year ago

    It’s almost like the main problem with both authoritarian communism and authoritarian capitalism might be the authoritarianism.

    • Phoenixz
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      1 year ago

      Just that most captialist counties are democracies and all communist countries are authoritarian because communism and it’s limiting of rights doesn’t go without a dictatorship and the murder of millions of innocent people 😇

      • Cethin
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        1 year ago

        The reason for this isn’t because they have to be dictatorships. It’s because the capitalist status-quo undermined any leftist nations. The only governments strong enough to last the CIA overthrow of them are strong central governments with cultural hegymony. This isnt to say these are good things (they aren’t), they are just stable. The entire red scare period was about destroying any nation that was even slightly left.

        The Guatemala coup for example was a dictatorship that was overthrown and a democracy was established. They elected a leftist president who implemented a minimum wage and returned land to the peasants, but the United Fruit Company didn’t like this. They had the CIA overthrow this new democracy and replace it with a dictatorship more aligned with US interests. This dictatorship proceeded to commit a genocide of the native inhabitants, all unopposed by the US.

        This is just one example from many similar events.

      • @masquenox
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        21 year ago

        Just that most captialist counties are democracies

        Your proof of this?