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[โ€“] snugglesthefalse@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Isn't the whole idea of communism liberal though?

No? ๐Ÿ˜ญ Liberals are capitalists

[โ€“] Allero@lemmy.today 1 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Yes as in fighting for liberty for all.

No as in liberalism, the political ideology. Liberalism the ideology normally embraces markets, private property, and liberal democracy.

Markets allow individuals to hoard wealth at the expense of everyone else, and are therefore anti-socialist. They also use money for their operation, which in turn does not agree with communism.

Private property (not to be confused with personal property) is specifically the property you use to extract profit, typically by exploiting the labor of others and paying them less than they earned you. This is, obviously, also anti-socialist and anti-communist.

Liberal democracy is problematic, because the wealthy have oversized control over the media, wide lobbying power, and other ways to convert money into influence. In this system, the voices of the common people are drowned in what billionaires want. Communists and socialists instead propose dictatorship of the proletariat - not a proletarian dictator, but proletariat as a class (all workers) together ruling the country and deciding only among themselves in how their place or country operates.

I know the terms can be confusing, but here's the gist: "liberal democracy" is not democratic, because the wealthy have outsized control over the decisions made, the media coverage, etc. Dictatorship of the proletariat denies the wealthy business owners their political rights, thereby boosting the voices of the common people. This should lead to workers taking over and ruling everything themselves, democratizing workplace and society at large.