• orrk@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    wait, you think it’s wrong to have a problem with an authoritarian state as a communist?

    brother in Christ, most left coms see Stalinism, and it’s progeny as nothing more than fascist masquerading as communists, I mean what actual resemblance do they have to a stateless society run by local governments made of the people who live there, and while I’m not 100% with the outdated anarchism, I can at least recognize that the soviet and the sino state structures aren’t communist

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      1 year ago

      You didn’t answer my question. Besides to say it’s authoritarian (which, so are most forms of communism

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        1 year ago

        not really, communism calls for an abolishment of the state, or are we playing the “everything that calls its self X is X” game?

        by that logic, the DEMOCRATIC people’s REPUBLIC of Korea must be a democratic republic, the people’s REPUBLIC of china must be a Republic, etc…

        or do we describe things based on what they act like?