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How i feel on Lemmy (programming.dev)

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

The USSR was definitely communist. They called themselves communist, were inspired by communists and implemented communist policies.

[–] agamemnonymous 15 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The Democratic People's Republic of Korea is definitely a democratic republic.

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

No because they are not inspired by democratic republicans and they do not have democratic republican policies. Read me whole comment next time.

[–] agamemnonymous 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Critical thinking needs a bit of work there buddy. That's exactly my point: the USSR did not have communist policies, it wasn't even based on communism. It was an authoritarian state-capitalist regime which called itself socialist (not even communist), much like North Korea calls itself a democratic republic.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Go to the Wikipedia homepage: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soviet_Union

State Capitalism a term used exclusively by a vocal minority of leftists to gaslight, revise and no-true-Scotsman historical events to fit their ideological world-view.

[–] agamemnonymous 1 points 1 year ago

As a term, communist state is used by Western historians, political scientists, and media to refer to these countries. However, these states do not describe themselves as communist nor do they claim to have achieved communism, as it would constitute an oxymoron—they refer to themselves as socialist states that are in the process of constructing socialism.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

China also calls themselves Communist