I haven't claimed that. I'm responding to the person who says the actions of Mao and Khmer Rouge were dictated by The Communist Manifesto. there is no clear line between the ywo.... just two crazy ass men with too much power |
| Why isn’t comparative politics part of our basic high school education? Millions of people would stop falling for these boogeymen like communism and Marxism if they actually understood what they mean and what they are. |
It's pretty simple really. You just have to explain how in China, they didn't have property during communism they all had literal communal toilets. |
You do know that DCUM posters are disproportionately likely to have actually lived and worked in your planned economies? And so they know from personal experience how much nonsense you are spewing? God you are so wildly ignorant. |
Please go clean your room, kiddo, and do your World History homework. You are far outclassed here and you know nothing. |
| Hey OP, name the country that Marx ruled. |
China is still Communist. |
You don't even understand the difference between PERSONAL property and PUBLIC property. Communism isn't sharing a toilet, it means some billionaire doesn't get to buy up things that should belong to everyone and sell it back to us for a profit. For example, in most developed countries they have robust public transportation available at a low cost. We don't have that here because the billionaires want to sell us cars and charge us for Ubers and escooters instead of funding buses and trains. |
Gotta protect auto worker jobs and oil extraction jobs. |
They don't give two f#cks about those people's jobs. They care about preserving their profits. That's what all of this crap is about. We all sell our labor and surplus value to these psychos under threat of starvation, incarceration, or violence. Communism/socialism at it's core is about taking back the resources the powers that be have stolen from us and sell back to us. That the very same kind of psychos have used it as yet another tool to hurt people doesn't change the fact that a system where resources are shared is a better and more just system than one where they are hoarded by a few. |
Trabants and Yugos are amazing cars from a system with a few at the top. Much better than 80s Benzs with a few at the top. |
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Atrocities have been committed by democracies too: Hiroshima, slavery, Japanese internment camps, eugenics.
Atrocities have also been committed by authoritarians too: Chinese famine, DPRK. |
The conflating of capitalism with democracy is propaganda. I get your point, but communism/socialism is an economic system. It doesn't preclude democracy, and could be argued to be far more democratic. The comparison would be to capitalist systems. |
Agreed, but people think the US democracy is pure, that's why I coined it that way, rather than capitalism. Ergo, the US is no saint. It's also why I said authoritarians. |
No really they had & have communal toilets. The Chinese Communist Party under Mao made a very explicit “heavy-industry first” choice. The first Five-Year Plans (1953–1957 and onward) were modeled on the Soviet experience: pour as much capital and labour as possible into steel, coal, power plants, railways, tractors, and defense. Housing and consumer goods were officially classed as “non-productive” sectors and got what was left over. That deliberate policy produced: Tiny state-built apartments with shared kitchens and toilets (the famous gongfang or “public housing” blocks). Slow infrastructure investment in water, sewage and household plumbing. Austerity campaigns that made spartan living a virtue and damped down public complaints. So while the country’s poverty and weak infrastructure set the baseline, the leadership did, in fact, choose to invest the scarce resources in industry first and accept very low living standards — including communal toilets — as the trade-off. Only after the post-1978 reforms, when growth shifted toward light industry and consumer goods and housing was privatized, did private bathrooms become the norm. |