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[–] Realitaetsverlust@lemmy.zip 5 points 58 minutes ago* (last edited 55 minutes ago) (3 children)

Communism only works on a small scale. The second society gets bigger, you require a state with militaristic presence to keep the people in line. To this very day, the Marxist ideal of a "dictatorship of the proletariat" has ALWAYS resulted in centralized power structures that became brutal dictatorships.

No matter which country you pick, large ones like china or the soviet union or smaller ones like cambodia under pol pot or vietnam under the CPV, all of them have devolved into a dictatorship. Even "experiments" like yugoslavia under tito were, in the end, still dictatorships where political opposition was disallowed, a secret police was founded and tito still had absolute control. Now, you might say: "But the people lived well!", yes, for about 10 years until the 1960s where the country suffered a massive economic crash, insane debt (because commies suck at economics) and inflation. Tito was able to hold it together with sheer force until he died, and after his death, yugoslavia completely unraveled into the mess it is today.

I know you like to cope with "oh no the evil CIA again >:(" but in the end, communism is a failed ideology that will never work on a large scale without completely suppressing individual freedom and brutally knocking down any sign of dissent.

Edit: By the way, I'm more than willing to argue about this - however, I just noticed that I'm on lemmy.ml so I'll most likely get banned for not conforming to the tankie-ideals.

[–] Cowbee@lemmy.ml 1 points 17 minutes ago (1 children)

This is generally wrong, though. Communist countries have dramatically democratized society, it can only work at large scale because that's the Marxist reason for Communism to begin with. Competition centralizes, so in the future it must be publicly owned and planned.

Pol Pot wasn't even a Communist.

[–] Realitaetsverlust@lemmy.zip 0 points 6 minutes ago* (last edited 5 minutes ago) (1 children)

Communist countries have dramatically democratized society

No. That's just a straightup lie. Name one.

it can only work at large scale because that’s the Marxist reason for Communism to begin with

And yet, it never did. Not one single time.

Competition centralizes, so in the future it must be publicly owned and planned.

Competition does the exact opposite of centralization. That's why I can buy most goods from completely different vendors that differ in price and quality.

Are there mega corpos that harm people in general? Absolutely. Should we do something about it? Absolutely. Is communism the solution? Nope.

Pol Pot wasn’t even a Communist.

Pol Pot followed a radical form of Maoist communism, heaviely influenced by china. So no - that's also a lie.

[–] Cowbee@lemmy.ml 1 points 41 seconds ago

The USSR, PRC, Cuba, Vietnam, Laos, etc are more democratic than theie previous systems.

Communism still works, just because the Soviet Union isn't here doesn't mean everything is a failure.

Competition forces centralization and monopolies over time due to increasinly complex production practices that raise the barrier to entry. It's unavoidable.

Pol Pot denounced Marxism and focused on an odd agrarian system, and was backed by the CIA.

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