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[–] sommerset@thelemmy.club -4 points 9 hours ago (7 children)

can communism survive in a single country was always a big question.

I think the original idea was to try a world revolution but that didn't work out.

Us is the main holdout. Russia is basically socialist, EU is basically socialist. China is communist.

Us is the only serious holdout

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[–] Montreal_Metro@lemmy.ca 78 points 1 day ago (11 children)

It doesn’t matter what ideology. If the people running it are rotten, any system can be corrupted.

[–] explodicle@sh.itjust.works 36 points 1 day ago (20 children)

So then the solution is to decentralize so everyone is running it.

[–] pdqcp@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 19 hours ago

And have a way for it to be trustless as well

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[–] RandomPrivacyGuy@lemm.ee 17 points 1 day ago* (last edited 23 hours ago) (12 children)

Yeah, I remember how my grandfather and everyone he knew fought tooth and nail just to stop America from dismantling communism in eastern Europe!

Oh, wait, he didn't. Everyone celebrated when it fell.

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