Why would any government oppose people’s thoughts of freedom and self-improvement, when that’s specifically the goal of Communism to encourage, as opposed to Capitalism?
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SuperSpruce@lemmy.zip 8 months agoNo no, you see. Its okay and normal to destroy your body for the glorious state.
The problem here is you enjoying yourself and experience happiness. Personal happiness is a sin in communism, because it might lead to thoughts of freedom and self-improvement, and thats the last thing the government wants. Just think of what it could do to the production!
/s because I know capitalism sucks, but communism sucks as well.
Cowbee@lemmy.ml 8 months ago
SuperSpruce@lemmy.zip 8 months ago
Because Communist governments see any opposition to communism as a threat to their power, so they do not tolerate dissidence even if they claim to tolerate dissidence. It’s just another example of the paradox of tolerance.
Cowbee@lemmy.ml 8 months ago
How is freedom and self-improvement “opposition to Communism?” Do you have the slightest idea what you’re talking about?
SuperSpruce@lemmy.zip 8 months ago
It might not be opposition to communism the way Marx envisioned it, but it is absolutely opposition to communism the way communist governments have envisioned it
trashgirlfriend@lemmy.world 8 months ago
commulism is when the government do stuff
melpomenesclevage@lemm.ee 8 months ago
Weird how your ‘communism’ always seems identical to capitalism, and literally every critique applies to both.
Almost like you don’t actually know what communism is and have created an entirely fictional external scapegoat to feel like the horror you labor in and perpetuate is morally good, or something.
This isn’t to defend the USSR, plenty of problems, but, like, you never bothered to learn what any of those actually were. Also, ussr≠all communism, some, including the USSR’s official position for the entirety of its existence, would argue that they weren’t communist at all.
Not that you care to use any crotical tjinking or curiosity to scratch the surface of the ideas you were told and discover myriad (mostly still shitty, but way more interesting and exciting) worlds beneath.
KevonLooney@lemm.ee 8 months ago
I mean, you can still go to former communist countries and see what older people look like. Like in Hungary older people don’t smile much. They learned that if you smile too much it might be suspicious and you could be investigated by the police. Why are you smiling? Do you have access to black market luxuries?
Cowbee@lemmy.ml 8 months ago
That’s hilariously wrong, lmao. The majority of people in nearly every post-soviet state wants Communism back, and this number is increased as the population ages.
You don’t have to like Communism or the USSR, but please don’t make things up now, lmao. It’s cringe red-scare fanfiction.
melpomenesclevage@lemm.ee 8 months ago
Completely ignoring literally everything I said.
KevonLooney@lemm.ee 8 months ago
This entire thread is about communism? The parent post is a critique of it? The word is mentioned in every post on the thread?