• anon5621@lemmy.ml
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    8 days ago

    Communism will never exist ,it’s utopia ,it becoming authoritarianism very quickly.We need other real alternatives to what we have now

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      8 days ago

      Marxism is anti-utopian, it’s based on analyzing how societies evolve over time. What is deemed “authoritarianism” is the need for the proletariat to exert its control over the bourgeoisie, rather than the reverse, yet bourgeois rule is more authoritarian.

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      8 days ago

      I guess it will never exist for you then

      But it will exist for me. My favorite communism is extra authoritarian. I love having a state to rely on. A state that fights against evil for me, a state that provides me with what I need, a state that gives me a meaningful job.

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      8 days ago

      I recommend you don’t get your information about communism solely from devout anti-communists

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      This echoes my concerns every time someone (especially under the age of about 40, especially American) praises “communism” (as if it were one thing) with some kind of absolute adoration.

      In this case, OP: how did that justice work for the political dissidents sent to gulags?

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        The vast majority of people sent to prison by the soviets were criminals, thieves, murderers, rapists, etc. The political prisoners were largely members of the White Army, fascists, monarchists, or were active terrorists against society. For a country that went through a revolution, resistance from the older owning classes is expected, other revolutions were similar in use of force against the monarchy and other ruling classes.