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This is what actually got me banned from lemmy.ml. I said that although Communism can be done in a ML way, it has never actually happened because it has never actually be a revolution by the people. In the case of Russia and the places they influenced, it was a group of self-appointed elites that did the actual revolting, and then they imposed a new system on the populace.
In all of my debates with those types they always see shadowy conspiracies preventing Americans from having real actual communism....whereas I see that nobody in this country -- especially in this country -- would vote for a communist.
The US spent 60 years actively treating Communists as enemies of the state and propagandizing against them. There's no need to talk about shadows and conspiracies. The capitalist and political elite were very open about it.
There's multiple elements to why people won't vote for a communist, but they still won't.
Certainly state actions play a role, and communists were victims of free speech violations in a much realer sense than victims of "cancel culture" ever were.
What on earth are you talking about? How would "a group of self-appointed elites" even be enough to overthrow the government? That fundamentally doesn't make any sense.
It's also whitewashing the Tsar. As if the Russian people were happy and content while they were starving and subject to serfdom and being fed into the meat grinder of WWI.
Hell, Lenin is even on record saying that Russia wasn't going to have a revolution, before it did, and by the time he arrived in Russia, the Tsar had already been forced to abdicate!