Why there is so much communist propaganda on lemmy? (feddit.uk)

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Even from people that never lived in a communist state

edit: im 17 and i hate communism

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[-] pocketman_stuck@lemmy.eco.br 54 points 7 months ago

I've lived all my life under capitalism and I hate it.

I've read Marx, (for real, grab the book and read it!) and I see the dude does have a point.

[-] Pascal@lemdro.id 22 points 7 months ago

The Communist Manifesto

The language can be a bit tough to understand these days though so might want to read Ted Reese's Socialism Or Extinction instead

[-] Cowbee@lemmy.ml 7 points 7 months ago

I'd recommend Chris Harman's How Marxism Works for an intro, or Engels' Principles of Communism. The Manifesto is more of a call to action for Workers than an overview of Communism, though it's still an important work nonetheless.

[-] some_guy 6 points 7 months ago

How someone can downvote two subjective statements of opinion (hates capitalism, sees a point in a book) is beyond me. There's nothing to downvote here. It's an opinion, not a statement of fact that is incorrect.

People misuse downvotes.

[-] orcrist@lemm.ee 5 points 7 months ago

That's an easy question to answer. People often downvote comments that waste their time. Opinions that have no basis, or that are based on bad definitions or falsehoods, those tend to get downvoted. Because there's nothing to learn and nothing to discuss.

[-] some_guy 1 points 7 months ago

My approach is to only downvote factual inaccuracies or extremely terrible takes. I know that's not for everyone, but I wish it was.

[-] Ironfist@sh.itjust.works 0 points 7 months ago

I thought the same many years ago, until I saw how it went for every single country that implemented communism and then I didnt like it so much. You all seriously think is a coincidence?

[-] mamotromico@lemmy.ml 6 points 7 months ago

Not really surprising, it’s complicated to make progress when every world power has it out for you.

[-] pocketman_stuck@lemmy.eco.br 6 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

You gotta look the context and learn about geopolitics. If Communism is so bad why the USA need to keep interfering with Cuba?

Lets compare Cuba with other Caribbean islands, how they perform against those? Remember they are blocked by the strongest country in the world.

Cuba developed its own covid vaccine, cuba sends doctors to africa in order to help people there, when Italia was in a health crisis Cuba sent thousands of doctors.

Cuba has the most advanced and inclusive family laws in the world.

Edit: btw Awesome album and Lemmy was an Anarchist.

[-] Ironfist@sh.itjust.works 1 points 6 months ago

First than anything, great taste in music my dude. Ok, fair point, these countries have it hard because of economic sanctions, but that doesn't explain why they all devolve into a tyrannical, corrupt and repressive systems where people are forced to stay and a great majority seems to want to leave. People just don't have free will and freedom of speech in these places. Is not a coincidence, its by design, communism is intentionally "the dictatorship of the working class".

And don't get me wrong, I dislike very much the unregulated capitalistic system of the USA too, yet a lot of people in the world seem to want to live there instead of any communist country. If I those were my only options, I would hate it, but I would choose the same.

[-] TokenBoomer@lemmy.world 0 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

I don’t blame the chef when I can’t understand the recipe. I learn what the ingredients are.

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