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Old memes I found on my phone - St Patrick's edition - correct community this time (lemmy.world)

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

So explain all those leftist movements that ended up creating dictatorships like the Soviet Union and the PRC.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 weeks ago

But they weren’t even Scotsmen!

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

I'm sorry I have to be the one to tell you this, but calling a country communist doesn't make it a communist country, that would require implementing communist principles which are inherently at odds with a top down autocracy.

Leftist ideologies are not compatible with authoritarianism.