It’s weird that boomers tend to strawman us as responding to criticisms of AES with “that’s not true socialism.” Maybe socdems who think Norway is socialist but Cuba isn’t would say that, but anyone who’s reading Marx and is actively participating in discussions about socialism above a high school level probably understands that real socialism has been tried and has succeeded.
Which brings me to my next point: Socialism’s biggest success story is China. It defies every trope yet it looks like most Western leftists are too afraid to claim it as the success it is, evidence that without sanctions, coups, and blockades socialism is a system that can take us to the future capitalism is currently killing. For every rags to riches story in America, there are thousands of people who received dignity, employment, and an economy that worked in their favor thanks to Chinese socialism. It’s the best example of what socialism can achieve without being sabotaged, a country that went from a feudal backwater with tyrannical landlords, where the local warlords could claim the peasants’ daughters as their property, where famines would routinely come and kill several million people, to the largest and most advanced economy in the world in less than a century. And they accomplished this by taking on Western capital and beating them at their own game.
The Marxist-Lennonists are always sabotaging the attempts at pure capitalism so this meme is kind of hypocritical.
I like how all these posts are by people who have never lived under a socialist regime and have no idea what it really feels like (not great). Is it the West’s fault that socialist nations repressed freedom of speech? And don’t get me started on things like LBGT rights in the USSR.
Not saying there are no problems in the weat, but ya’ll just a bunch of commie cosplayers.
And it sure as hell weren’t “imperialist capitalist states” who sent tanks to Czechoslovakia and Hungary. Yet they’re surpised they’re called tankies with these stupid takes.
You can’t say there isn’t anything to it. But for sure I agree it isn’t the whole story.
Ive been reading a lot of Russian history lately. The Bolsheviks basically swan dived into an opressive surveillance state right from the starting gun, loooong before any relations with america. The west didnt cause Stalin’s purges and they had nothing to do with the Holodomor. People seriously suffered under communism, its genuinely atrocious.
America has freedom of owning the speech. They almost got it right. :p
The fact you can cosplay as Che Guevara on lemmy shows your speech is not being repressed by corporations or anyone else. You seriously have no concept of how restricted speech was in the Soviet Union or other communist countries.
No not a real concept, thank god. Got lucky to be born in northern Europe. Seems to be one of the best spots on the planet.
It’s true, North Korea is the best country in the world.
dude, how about some change in the content you post? it’s a bit mono thematic and boring
You messed up the format.
The caption should be “Why would Socialism do this?”
