Comment on We live wasted lives
Genius@lemmy.zip 4 days agoMost communists didn’t use farming as their primary food production. A majority were hunter gatherer societies. Agricultural nations like Catalonia are the exception.
Comment on We live wasted lives
Genius@lemmy.zip 4 days agoMost communists didn’t use farming as their primary food production. A majority were hunter gatherer societies. Agricultural nations like Catalonia are the exception.
Maalus@lemmy.world 4 days ago
And yet over here it is exactly what happened. So we have 3 years during a civil war, and 60 years of a failed state.
Deme@sopuli.xyz 4 days ago
Huh. It’s almost as if all the various alternatives to capitalism couldn’t be lumped into one… Revolutionary Catalonia was Anarcho-Syndicalist, so about as far from the soviet system as possible.
Genius@lemmy.zip 4 days ago
I don’t believe your country was ever under communism in the last two thousand years. I think you’re actually from a former USSR state. Not even Stalin ever dared to claim that the USSR had achieved communism, and he was an arrogant git who would have said it if he’d had a shred of evidence.
Maalus@lemmy.world 4 days ago
No true scotsman fallacy. I could say that no country was under ideal capitalism so you can’t criticize it either. You have to look at reality, not make believe nations that never existed.
squaresinger@lemmy.world 4 days ago
Throwing around the names of fallacies that don’t apply instead of actual arguments doesn’t further your cause just as much as you might think it does.
The no true Scotsman fallacy applies if:
The main issue here is that using this fallacy, the claim becomes a non-falsifiable tautology. Every Scotsman who puts sugar on his porridge is not a true Scotsman, thus the claim becomes always true by excluding every counter-example.
Let’s apply that to the situation at hand.
Please read up on your fallacies before throwing around the names of them.
When you claim that something is a fallacy, even though the fallacy you claim doesn’t actually apply, then you are doing so to discredit the whole argument without actually engaging with it. This is a perfect example of the Strawman argument, which itself is a fallacy.
Genius@lemmy.zip 4 days ago
I just gave you a true scotsman 4 messages ago, genius. You pick those debate skills up at Harvard?