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    • Cowbee [he/they]@lemmy.ml
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      20 hours ago

      Anyone who tells you “real Communism has never been tried before” is likely a Trotskyist, which is a strain of Marxism that was proven theoretically incorrect the second the Peasantry in Russia aligned with the Proletariat successfully. What came of that was post-hoc discussions about a “Worker State” not being Socialist if it didn’t fully eradicate all classes immediately, essentially taking a left-dogmatic error in applying Marxism.

      Socialism, in reality, is an economic Mode of Production where Public Ownership and planning is primary in the economy. There’s no such thing as a “pure” system, which was the major philosophical advancement in Dialectical Materialism when analyzing Modes of Production through history. Capitalism is a Mode of Production where commodity production and markets are primary, and while they are present in the PRC, they are not the primary driving force of the economy, and are subservient to the Public Sector and government planning.

      As for your take that the Red Scare didn’t matter, I’m curious what you think the USSR even looked like from a day to day pespective.

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      20 hours ago

      thanks for the warning, I’ll stay away form these then

      You are in one right now. Lemmy leans pretty clearly to the left, the conservative subs literally got bullied into non-existence.