Comment on Never in my life has it been harder to control my spending impulse than this moment

• TokenBoomer@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  You’re obsession with tankies is _weird _

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• sxan@midwest.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  In theory, you’re right. In theory, practice matches theory; in practice, it doesn’t.

  Is there a functioning communist state, anywhere in the world, that isn’t also an authoritarian state, or effectively a dictatorship? Has there ever been one?

  The only functioning communist communities I’m aware of were the communes in California, nearly all of which have died out, collapsed, or otherwise fallen apart. I think there are still a few surviving ones, but community populations have always numbered in the dozens, and usually fewer.

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