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A Boring Dystopia

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[–] merc@sh.itjust.works -4 points 1 day ago (2 children)

No, it's my own eyes. You don't need the capitalists to interpret it for you when you can just look for yourself and see that communism never works.

[–] mattyroses@lemmy.today 5 points 22 hours ago (1 children)

What communist country did you live in again?

[–] merc@sh.itjust.works -1 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

Who said I lived in a communist country?

[–] mattyroses@lemmy.today 1 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

So what are you seeing with your own eyes?

[–] merc@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 hour ago

The results of supposed "communists" taking over a country.

[–] rapchee@lemmy.world 2 points 19 hours ago (2 children)

keep in mind, that communism, based on marx's vision, was supposed to bring democracy to the workplace, on top of democracy in politics, the "worker's dictatorship" was supposed to be a temporary thing, before the system reaches actual communism

[–] merc@sh.itjust.works 0 points 11 hours ago

I think we can now say that Marx didn't know how people actually behaved in real life.

[–] JcbAzPx@lemmy.world 0 points 13 hours ago

supposed to be

Yet never was and could never be.