• ahornsirup@feddit.org
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    2 days ago

    So explain all those leftist movements that ended up creating dictatorships like the Soviet Union and the PRC.

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      2 days ago

      I’m sorry I have to be the one to tell you this, but calling a country communist doesn’t make it a communist country, that would require implementing communist principles which are inherently at odds with a top down autocracy.

      Leftist ideologies are not compatible with authoritarianism.