Wait until you hear about Lemmygrad.
You don’t like lemmy.ml? Join another instance,I really don’t see what all the fuss is about 🤷.
I think that the post is joking about the fact that it’s working despite the communist association. A lot of institutions branding themselves as communist haven’t done very well.
That’s just the mentality of the west. You’re a communist, therefore you must be bad. It’s a stereotype. The idea behind communism is not bad if you get into it, but years of propaganda has done a lot of damage to it’s reputation.
Not talking about actual implementations, just the concept. There are a lot of bad things done on both sides of the fence, communist countries included.
communist countries included
I’d also like to add that just because a country identifies with a certain label doesn’t actually mean that they are aligned with the values of that label or the prescribed social relations. Often, countries and organizations will normatively align themselves with some general ideals when in practice they aren’t really meeting those ideals. The Soviet Union identified as communist, yet they had nothing of a classless society. Government administrators had much more political, economic, and general power than others, practically creating social classes. That is not communism as prescribed by Marx & Engels. Russia currently states that they are a democratic federation, when we all know it’s an autocracy. If Russia does something terrible, it’s not because democracy did that. It’s because Russia did that. Something similar can be said for Cuba.
Cuba is officially called the Republic of Cuba, implying that their government is administered by elected representatives of the general population. However, we know that they have a one-party rule and that the principal leaders are not directly elected. If they were to give themselves a more valid name, it would be the Republic of the Cuban Communist Party not the General Population. Furthermore, the Cuban Communist Party would have to rename itself to something like the National Governing Body that Ensures Cuban Political and Economic Sovereignty from American Neocolonialsim because they aren’t really communist either. They’re more of a government party that maintains power to avoid American neocolonilism of their country.
The entirety of lemmy.ml isn’t communist. Its admins may be, but from what I can tell it’s simply the largest and most active instance with a large variety of posts and content. I honestly don’t think I’ve seen a pro CCP post since I’ve created an account (but I have seen a very large number of anti-CCP / anti-tankie posts)
That’s neat for all those people, but I prefer not to have my comments and posts removed/shadowbanned because they don’t align with the mods or creators beliefs. That’s censorship and is generally considered to be wrong.
So wait, are you talking about communism or authoritarianism/fascism? It’s fine to disagree on things, but you should probably know what you’re disagreeing with.
In the US, communal groups are all over the place. Families typically aren’t capitalist, they’re communist. You don’t see grandma getting kicked out of Thanksgiving when she’s too old to bring a casserole. Religious organizations are often communal, taking offerings from those who have a surplus and distributing it to the homeless or poorer members who are in need. Small towns where everyone knows each other are often communal; you’d rather keep good friendly people around even when they’re going through a rough patch than let them lose their house and be replaced with someone who might hurt the town.
You’ll also find that most totalitarian dictatorships don’t go around calling themselves “totalitarian dictatorships” for the same reason movie villains don’t walk around with a “villain” t-shirt on. Most of them start with a promise of getting people through a hard time using a communist ideology. Then they leverage that to justify using force to ensure they stay communist. Then they use the force to take unilateral control of everything, and you no longer have communism, ex. China.
People who blindly endorse communism are likely being naive. But people who blindly curse communism are equally, if not more naive, considering how much they’ve likely benefitted from communist organizations in their life.
This is a very long and not well thought out argument that I don’t have the energy to even respond to.
I’ve never benefited from economic communism or economic communist systems. Ever. And most people in capitalist countries have not. To say so is such a stretch that’s it’s bordering the line between “stretch” and “downright bullshit”
