Lmao

  • Kichae@lemmy.ca
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    2 months ago

    Are we playing the “socialism and communism are different things” game today? Because that’snnever fun.

    Authoritarians aren’t communists. They’re just appropriating the term.

    • ReCursing@lemmings.world
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      2 months ago

      Are we playing the anarchists and communists are the same thing game today? Communists absolutely can be authoritarian, anarchists can’t anarcho-communists aren’t but not all communists are true Scotsman anarcho-communists

    • SpaceCowboy@lemmy.ca
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      2 months ago

      Authoritarianism isn’t something anyone should want so authoritarians need to make some kind of grift to convince people to go along with it. But it ultimately has the same result. Someone becomes dictator by promising to make a country stronger, while someone else becomes dictator by promising equal, it all ends the same.

      I mean China is obviously a fascist government today (no matter what they call themselves) but where was the revolution that caused this massive shift from the “far left” to the “far right”? There wasn’t one because it’s just authoritarianism, the only change was which propaganda is used to justify authoritarian power.