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It’s a fairytale believed by children who don’t want to grow up only to have to make decisions for themselves.
Imo, I'm not qualified to make a generalized judgement about communism.
All for one and one for all makes sense but fuck...human nature is a beast!
It pisses off liberals and conservatives and that's a good in my book.
It never really worked out well. However, it could become relevant again in a distant future when all work has been outsourced to robots. But looking at the current world I doubt that we will ever reach that point.
A lot of these comments are the classical “it works only on paper” bullshit or the “it always fails” schtick as if it has been tried in a void and not with constant assault from capitalist superpowers and the oligarchs that control those countries. Or what the countries looked like before revolution. Many cases of increased life expectancy, quality of life increases, and lowered infant mortality rates after communist or socialist regimes are installed. Even with capitalists and the countries they control doing literally everything they can to destroy the lives of the people within these countries to fit a narrative. Many of you are way oversimplifying things with preloaded phrases straight out of McCarthyism and it’s really depressing.
Communism did that when starting with fuedelism or other tyranical systems. when starting with clasical liberal societies it doesn't improve much. There has never been a capitalist society so who knows how that would fare.
Fuck it, let's try literally anything except capitalism
An artifact from the past. Even if it's a rebranding, it's pretty obvious to me that leftism needs to move on. Right wing ideology has evolved while left wing ideology, online at least, stays arguing over the same tired shit from 100 years ago.
I'm willing to try it, capitalism sucks!!!