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• MolochAlter@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  You’re appealing to definitions as if they matter in real world contexts.

  If I created a group called “the bad people killers” and started killing people would that “by definition” mean everyone I killed was bad?

  Communism may be defined as a wheelbarrow full of monkeys for all that matters, in the real world every self-sufficient communist regime was a shitshow of state capitalism, coercion, censorship, and state violence. All the drawbacks of capitalism and none of the perks.

  That’s what communism, descriptively, is. The day you figure out a way to manifest reality by sheer will alone without having to deal with the real world I will be interested in what something is “by definition”

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  • DeathByBigSad@sh.itjust.works ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Communism may be defined as a wheelbarrow full of monkeys for all that matters, in the real world every self-sufficient communist regime was a shitshow of state capitalism, coercion, censorship, and state violence. All the drawbacks of capitalism and none of the perks.

    I mean, fair point. I do agree with the fact thay “communism” in practice has practically always been a shitshow.

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