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[–] [email protected] 62 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Something tells me Karl Marx wouldn't like these things either.

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[–] [email protected] 42 points 3 months ago (1 children)

These westerners are social democrats which is not hard to understand, it's wiki entry away.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

It’s infuriating considering that it’s in the first goddamn sentence: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Socialism

Socialism is an economic and political philosophy encompassing diverse economic and social systems characterised by social ownership of the means of production, as opposed to private ownership.

If those libs could read they’d be very upset.

[–] mindbleach 2 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Words mean what they're used to mean. Even the word "government" is wildly different between Europe and the US. We flip out over headlines like the government of Belgium has collapsed! and it's only as much of a kerfuffle as the House trying to elect a Speaker.

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[–] [email protected] 31 points 3 months ago (20 children)

Man im pretty socialist who lives in ex east germany with my parents actually being parz of that time and i gotta tell you, with what i hear from them, it was horrible

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[–] [email protected] 17 points 3 months ago

Ah right, we are in the meme community. Carry on.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I just hate murderous regimes that murder millions of their own people

FTFY

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

Average imperial core Cold Warrior understander.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 months ago (1 children)

The US is included in my list too with the Native American genocide for what its worth lol. But people tend to forget that Soviet Russia and Communist China killed millions of their own people. They should not be praised or imitated. We should learn from the horrible mistakes of the past.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (6 children)

By millions murdered, you don’t mean people who died in the last famine in China after centuries of famines, and you don’t mean the last famine in the region that became the USSR after centuries of famines, right? Famines that happened during or soon after the bloody revolutions overthrowing the tsars and emperors, under which the previous famines occurred?

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 months ago (7 children)

... And? A lot of socialists are also libertarian in equal measure.

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 months ago (2 children)

Is it so much to ask that workers councils be in charge instead of some revolutionary

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 months ago

The history of socialist movements shows that it is. Rosa Luxemburg was right over a hundred years ago.

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

I kinda suspect ты из Калининграда

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 months ago

виновен

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

There's no contradiction there.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago

lemmy.world

[–] mindbleach 2 points 3 months ago

"Those countries reflect poorly on socialism."

"How dare you, they're not really socialist."

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago

The healthcare system is just fraud anyway just finish the job and make it for everyone not the ultra rich.

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