• BeigeAgenda@lemmy.ca
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    11 months ago

    You can argue if they had sunshine scenario communism all day, but they certainly was under the oppressive thumb of USSR.

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      11 months ago

      Do not feed the troll. Strange fellas, lying on the internet, arbitrarily defining communism to suit their rose-colored ideology is no basis for a system of debate.

      True debate stems from a knowledge of history, past events and conditions that led to them, not some farcical comment (as the one you are replying to).

      If I went around in communist times claiming I knew what Marxism-Leninism was just because I read a manifesto, they’d send the secret police after me.

    • 🦄🦄🦄@feddit.de
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      11 months ago

      I didn’t say anything about communism being good or bad there, just that none of those countries ever lived under communism.

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        11 months ago

        @Duke_Nukem_1990 @BeigeAgenda, correct, the key is the sovereignty of the people, not that of a single person or a small elite, this would reduce the communist system to a mere fascist dictatorship just as rotten as capitalism called democracy and where banks and multinationals dictate the rules, thereby it is not a democracy.