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Neato@ttrpg.network 6 months ago
The idea that the USSR and East Germany were anywhere close to communism is a joke. There were so many offshoots of communism that were just autocracies where the state owned all property that its meaning is pointless now. It’s better to describe then as dictatorships.
GladiusB@lemmy.world 6 months ago
As much as I agree with your communism comment the same can be said to our democracy. We are a representative democracy and choose people to choose for us.
Wofls@feddit.de 6 months ago
Agreed. Most if not all democracies today are severely flawed. I’d also argue that the wall depicted here has more to do with these flaws than with democracy
ASeriesOfPoorChoices@lemmy.world 6 months ago
‘Many forms of Government have been tried, and will be tried in this world of sin and woe. No one pretends that democracy is perfect or all-wise. Indeed it has been said that democracy is the worst form of Government except for all those other forms that have been tried from time to time.…’
Winston S Churchill, 11 November 1947
pkill@programming.dev 6 months ago
right after starving 20 million Indians kek
Neato@ttrpg.network 6 months ago
Only for the presidential election. All the rest are normal. We’re definitely a representative democracy. Whereas none of the communist countries are anywhere close to Marxist communism.