• Grail@multiverse.soulism.net
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    20 小时前

    North Korea is officially called the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea. They call themselves democratic. The tankies on Hexbear call them democratic.

    If America had never rebelled against the British empire, then in all likelihood you and I would have been inundated with decades of anti-democracy propaganda portraying authoritarian regimes like North Korea and Russia as symptoms of the evil ideology of democracy. I would be saying “Well you shouldn’t call Soviet states democratic” and you’d be saying “what’s the difference? They called themselves democratic, their enemies called them democratic, that’s democracy.”

    The fact that our culture celebrates democracy and condemns communism is a pure coincidence. The dice of history just turned out that way. You shouldn’t use that as your source of truth. It’s an appeal to authority fallacy.

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      12 小时前

      I suppose that’s one way of resolving the cognitive dissonance that comes with the ideal of communism and the way it was implemented in practice. Just mix the terminology enough and it’s all good again.

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        7 小时前

        We had 60,000 years of communism here in Australia and it was great. We had no state, no money, no privileged social classes.

        Stalin never even claimed that the USSR had achieved communism, but here you are, saying it was communism. You’ve drank Stalin’s flavor-aid even harder than the man himself. You’re the USSR’s hype-person, bigging them up, exaggerating their accomplishments.