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[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 year ago (6 children)

Pretty much all communist regimes have been dictatorships. What's your point?

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

Money is always the dictator. If you take it out of the equation, it just gets replaced by power. Not that those two are mutually exclusive...

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

Pretty much all command economies**

There are ways to organize a system of labor that have not been explored or are in the infancy of being considered in the world. Many countries are engaging with more and more socialist ideals every day and they are doing so under current forms of democracy. The world is not binary, everything is a sliding scale with tradeoffs

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Because capitalism and communism are the only 2 options....

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

It doesn't matter what option you choose as long as humans are involved in any form.

[–] [email protected] -4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (3 children)

Any government that claims to be something in between really just wants you to think it's something in between.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

Hey guys, I found it! I found the dumbest take!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

You think existing government can't manipulate you into thinking we are in a democracy?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

There is no such thing as a true democracy. Humans are far too easily corruptible for that.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Which is what the extremist propagenda taught you to think. Good for them.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

So is this the whataboutism I've been hearing so much about? Meme didn't even mention communism.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

You'll never get anything accomplished then once everyone needs to agree.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

That's unanimous consensus, not democracy.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

Yes. I mean it as in the Wikipedia definition, not chaos.