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[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

Could a Communist Nation be considered viable if such a hostile force can take it down? Does it all come down to survival of the fittest (in the best use of the term)?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 hours ago* (last edited 1 hour ago)

Yes and no. The AES ststes of today have learned from what happened to the USSR and other former Socialist countries snd have adapted, such as China's Socialist Market Economy an stance towards international investment, not closing off but not ceding power.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

Luckily the US is dismantling the CIA so that’s good news for communism!!!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 hour ago

Hopefully the ATF too

[–] [email protected] 14 points 5 hours ago (2 children)

When people ask me what communist country was successful I usually say all of them until cia decided to go there and spread freedom 🇺🇸🦅

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

Well... There was this thing called Soviet Union. They decided to try to speed up the transition to communism by using repression and violence. And ended up being a totalitarian state, a direct opposite of what a communist state is supposed to be like.

Of course you can argue that Soviet Union was not communist, it was just a state that had chosen to call itself communist for propaganda reasons... But still, Soviet Union is an example of a communist country that was unsuccessful as a communist project already by itself. Then came outsiders and helped make it even worse, but bad doesn't become good by some people wanting it to be even worse. Burma is another example. I'd say they hacked away their own leg before anyone else, such as CIA, had time to interfere in their business.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 hours ago* (last edited 2 hours ago)

The USSR didn't "do repression and violence to speed up Communism," they had a successful revolution and established Socialism. By all accounts it was quite successful overall, but we can learn from where they erred and adapt for the future.

The only ones who believe the Soviet Union wasn't Socialist are generally Western Trots or liberals/Anarchists who already don't want the form of society Marxists want, which is a government that publicly owns its large and key industries and gradually folds in the new firms that grow to that level until the entire economy is publicly owned.

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

can communism survive in a single country was always a big question.

I think the original idea was to try a world revolution but that didn't work out.

Us is the main holdout. Russia is basically socialist, EU is basically socialist. China is communist.

Us is the only serious holdout

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 hours ago

Russia is Capitalist, the EU is Capitalist, the US is Capitalist, and China is Socialist. Communism must be global, but Socialism is the process of building towards that through publicly owning large firms and key industries. Communism exists as an ideology for now, and hasn't been achieved yet.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 hour ago (1 children)

China is a cocktail of socialism, capitalism, nationalism... claiming it's only one ~ism is probably oversimplifying, but communism is probably a bit far stretch.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 hour ago (1 children)

China has a Socialist Market Economy, it isn't so much a cocktail as it is Marxism-Leninism applied to China's current conditions.

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

China has a Socialist Market Economy, it isn’t so much a cocktail as it is Marxism-Leninism applied to China’s current conditions.

This sentence is in Chinese constitution and text book for every first grade student. Repeating it doesn't help any meaningful conversation, unless you are a 7 years old trying to pass exam and get to second grade...

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 hour ago

It's a sentence I made, just because the PRC agrees with describing themselves that way doesn't mean I'm not adding to meaningful conversation. When you declare that China is a cocktail of Capitalism and Socialism, what does that actually mean? It seemed like your comment was more about not analyzing China's economy than coming up with a coherent and consistent answer, which is what I pushed forward.

Basically, Capitalism and Socialism are descriptors of overall systems, not portions of an economy, so calling a system a cocktail of each doesn't make too much sense and adds confusion more than clarity.

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