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[–] missandry351@lemmings.world 6 points 43 minutes ago (1 children)

When people ask me what communist country was successful I usually say all of them until cia decided to go there and spread freedom πŸ‡ΊπŸ‡ΈπŸ¦…

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[–] CircaV@lemmy.ca 1 points 55 seconds ago

Luckily the US is dismantling the CIA so that’s good news for communism!!!

[–] vfreire85@lemmy.ml 11 points 1 hour ago* (last edited 1 hour ago) (8 children)

you know, i tell you what. i'm fed up with all this gringo self-righteousness when you talk about "oh communism was bad, oh people where killed, oh people had no food, oh people had no liberty, oh people could not buy ataris, oh our countries are so democratic". your countries were democratic during the cold war in the first place because you had people to sort things out for you here in the global south. for each person complaining about how the food rations in eastern europe were not tasty enough, there were 10 dying of hunger or malnourishment here in the global south. for every person complaining they had to wait 5 years in a queue to buy a trabant or an oka, there were 10 who got no school in a range of 50 km. for every person complaining that their 8 hour shifts in state owned factories were overwhelming, there were 10 who were indentured workers. for every person complaining about how the stasi, kgb or the stb had bugged their apartment, there were 10 suffering the most horrific tortures inside black sites of the military of u.s. allies here in the "third world". for every person complaining about dull standard apartment blocks in mikrorayons, there were 10 who lived in mud shacks and slums, and those are just who were lucky enough to have a roof over their heads. finally, for everyone complaining about chinese sweatshops, which are indeed a problem, there are 10 americans who work and yet cannot afford proper housing.

you wanna complain about how communism was bad? go ahead. you wanna complain how your parents lived under communism and could not drink coke? do so if you wish. but there are still millions of people down here who would give an arm and a leg to have a polish ration, an apartment in a russian gray building, or a yugoslav job. and while the chinese maoist red guard was bad, surely it won't be an inch closer to the harassement people endured on a daily basis by our police forces.

again: you wanna complain? be my guest. but for me that's an encyclopedic example of white privilege.

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[–] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 13 points 2 hours ago (1 children)
[–] Frenchys_prospecting@aussie.zone 6 points 1 hour ago (2 children)

As an Australian I now understand the contempt of the middle east for America.

[–] Bloomcole@lemmy.ml 3 points 27 minutes ago

Hey I'm European, I have loads of contempt for them too, and same for our sellout leaders.

[–] Cowbee@lemmy.ml 4 points 1 hour ago

Just listen to Blowback.

[–] CalipherJones@lemmy.world 11 points 2 hours ago (5 children)

I wonder if anyone ever said "Democracy would never work, just look at what happened to Athens".

Socialism and communism are relatively new ideas. While I don't believe communism is an effective form of government, it's still kind of silly to write it off so quickly.

[–] PolandIsAStateOfMind@lemmy.ml 7 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

There is a poem in Polish, it goes in fast and dirty translation: "Today you scare us with communists, just as years ago, you scared our fathers with the democrat name".

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[–] Edie@lemmy.ml 10 points 2 hours ago

Someone between 1804 and 1830: Democracy doesn't work, just look at France, it dissolves into an empire

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