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[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Nothing about a dictatorship is public ownership.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

*ism is just a tool for any aspiring autocrat. Stalin would have been far-right if he saw it as being a valid pathway towards power.

Effective tyrants are forever pragmatic and never burdened by ideological loyalty.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 weeks ago

Yes that's why I stated Stalin, Putin, and the CCP are ideologically opposed to socialism/communism. People who enjoy socialist concepts should be opposed to Lemmy.ml, not see common grounds with them.