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• merc@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  No, it’s my own eyes. You don’t need the capitalists to interpret it for you when you can just look for yourself and see that communism never works.

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  • mattyroses@lemmy.today ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    What communist country did you live in again?

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    • merc@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Who said I lived in a communist country?

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      • mattyroses@lemmy.today ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        So what are you seeing with your own eyes?

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  • rapchee@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    keep in mind, that communism, based on marx’s vision, was supposed to bring democracy to the workplace, on top of democracy in politics, the “worker’s dictatorship” was supposed to be a temporary thing, before the system reaches actual communism

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    • merc@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      I think we can now say that Marx didn’t know how people actually behaved in real life.

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    • JcbAzPx@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      supposed to be

      Yet never was and could never be.

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