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mechoman444@lemmy.world 3 days agoOkay, so I’ll say this: if you don’t indicate exactly which manifesto you’re talking about in a way that’s clear, I will not continue this conversation.
As for your second point, I’ve already addressed it. None of the manifestos actually define the term communism—not one of them, including what I can only assume you mean by “the big one,” which I assume is The Communist Manifesto by Karl Marx.
Are you intentionally being facetious, or are you simply unwilling to specify which manifesto you’re referring to?
Sir, you’re not the only person who’s read it. I’ve read it too. In fact, after looking up the other manifestos last night, I read portions of those as well.
Reading something and comprehending it are two very different things.
And yes, I am in fact implying exactly what you’re thinking.
UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 3 days ago
Then you’d like to think you could bother to quote from it, rather than running to the “Communism is when Bad” definition you found on the back of a cereal box.
mechoman444@lemmy.world 3 days ago
It was the Marian Webster dictionary. I provided you a link to it.
Let me ask you a question. Are you some kind of idiot?
UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 2 days ago
There it is. Out of any coherent response so we’re down to name calling
mechoman444@lemmy.world 2 days ago
You keep dancing around this idea that there is some definition of communism contained in a manifesto.
I provided you with the official dictionary definition of communism, and you dismissed it as “the back of a cereal box.”
You still have not engaged with anything I have actually said or provided any meaningful response to the points I raised. Instead, you continue to act as though the answer must exist somewhere in a document that you have not actually identified.
My question was mostly rhetorical because idiots generally do not know they are idiots. There is no way for someone to answer a question about their own inability to recognize their mistakes. And since you immediately assumed I was simply calling you a name, that reaction seems to confirm the very point I was making.