While communism hasn’t got a fair try. Either because of external forces or internal corruption.
Let’s not act like it’s some utopia. Every attempt has immediately turned into a full on dictatorship with the worst intentions.
Why is that? Because it seems completely incapable of dealing with the greed, violence, and general evil that makes up much of human nature.
Let’s face it, if humans were “good” any government would work.
Pretty much every single time a revolutionary socialist movement has taken power it has improved literacy, child mortality, wealth inequality, nutrition, and just about any other quality-of-life metric you can name. Get the fuck out of here with your “human nature” bullshit. Communism always works.
It’s the West’s fault that Mao and Stalin, et al killed millions.
the maoist uprising against the landlords was the largest and most comprehensive proletarian revolution in history, and led to almost totally-equal redistribution of land among the peasantry
Turned an imperialist monarchy where the majority of the population were illiterate into being the first nation of humans in space and defeating the Nazis within a few decades?
Turning a country fresh from a century of humiliation in to the world’s largest economy by purchasing power parity and virtually eliminating poverty?
Seems like it works to me
You hexbears and gradists are so bent on this autocratic ‘dictatorship of the prolitariat’ idea that you could almost replace all energy needs by just hooking up a dynamo to Marx turning around in his grave.
We’re fully aware that DoTP is a transitory step in the path to full stateless classless communism, I’m just engaging with conceit the meme makes to dispute the point those who make ‘cOmMuNiSm oNlY wOrKs On PaPeR’ arguments think they’re making
I get it. My point is different. Communism has never been realized, therefore there’s nothing to say about it’s functionality.
Let’s forget that the USSR was considered a superpower at some point
