Pretty much all communist regimes have been dictatorships. What's your point?
this post was submitted on 21 Aug 2023
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Money can be a dictator too.
Because capitalism and communism are the only 2 options....
It doesn't matter what option you choose as long as humans are involved in any form.
Any government that claims to be something in between really just wants you to think it's something in between.
You think existing government can't manipulate you into thinking we are in a democracy?
Which is what the extremist propagenda taught you to think. Good for them.
So is this the whataboutism I've been hearing so much about? Meme didn't even mention communism.
Anarchism!
You'll never get anything accomplished then once everyone needs to agree.
That's unanimous consensus, not democracy.
Talking about anarchy.
Yes. I mean it as in the Wikipedia definition, not chaos.
Source: Western propaganda
I didn't know reality was western propaganda, those pesky Americans!
I fucking hate that capitalism is bad. No one is a selfless saint. There has to be some sort of profit motive. Otherwise everyone would just go to subsistence farming. I know you are going to hate this but you need to be specific, capitalism alone isn't bad, what you hate is the pooling of wealth which I hate to say happened in communism to.
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What about sortition, aka random selection of representatives?
- Not democracy
- People will still find a way to manipulate that
That's not democracy then, if I understand what you're saying
It is if everyone gets selected from time to time. Selected citizens only participate to one issue at a time, they are not here to stay. It is the best and only non-digital direct-democracy system
That’s not representation of the people. That’s representation of one individual (or one small group of individuals) in each instance. May be different individuals, but one instance might be dealing with an act of war, the other might be local infrastructure.
The size of the group required for good representation can be calculated, and it's not a lot