Comment on Imperialism, authoritarianism and oppression is bad all around m'kay
GrammarPolice@lemmy.world 1 week agoYet the roadmap of every communist country so far has involved a state and a leader that may or may not represent the interest of the people. Yeah, it seems like your idols need to go back to the basics
Cowbee@lemmy.ml 1 week ago
Again, I have specifically argued against idolization. Did you outright ignore the part where Marx and Engels argued for the usage of a state when building up towards Communism? You admit to having little knowledge of Marxism and Socialist history, yet refuse to learn more.
GrammarPolice@lemmy.world 1 week ago
Only because how it should be implemented differs from how it has been implemented. I’m just saying. There’s nothing wrong with Marxism. There’s something wrong with the people who practice it.
State socialism is soft totalitarianism. There is a non-zero chance that any government that utilizes such a path will succumb to totalitarianism. Thereby making it a flawed system
Cowbee@lemmy.ml 1 week ago
How should it be implemented in your eyes? You speak in vague, non-Marxist idealism like “soft totalitarianism,” when you should already know better having read Politzer.
GrammarPolice@lemmy.world 1 week ago
It should be implemented the way Marx thought it should. If it still cannot be properly carried out, then Marxism is flawed.
Very funny. Soft totalitarianism is a term i came up with, am proud of, and will continue to use for the foreseeable future.