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Gwynevere posted...

The key takeaway from this should be the mistake of calling what the Soviet Union was under Stalin "communism",

It's easy to make a lot of fallacious arguments about it by saying "oh X number of bad things happened under communism during Stalin era SU" but the argument is bad from the get go.

It was communism but the bad things that happened didn't happen because of communism, they happened because of Stalin. People weren't sent to Gulags because they thought communism was shitty they got sent for criticizing the government. There's plenty of failed capitalist states as well but they didn't fail because of capitalism. Countries fail because the people who get power destroy them when something threatens their power, or because they're overrun by another country in an invasion.

The thing is when you attribute success to your beliefs, it makes other people want to adopt your beliefs. It especially helps when a belief opposed to yours is failing you can also attribute that failure to that belief instead of the person fucking everything up.

To date the only truly successful & peaceful communism is Vietnam. They're even running a one party system for politics. They're successful not because of communism but because the people there actually give a shit about others as fellow humans.


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