Won't change their mind but what the hell, it's cathartic.
this post was submitted on 11 Jul 2025
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Communism IS NOT (supposed to be) fascism by another name, and the fact you pretend it is says a great deal about how pathetically miniscule your understanding of the political spectrum is.
... Note that Tankies often completely ignore this basic fact of communism as well, but that doesn't magically change what communism is (supposed to) be.
It truly sounds to me like you guys just need to find a better word at this point. Communism has turned into the USSR, PRNK, and the CCP. You cannot worship this thing and muddy the waters by upholding truly abhorrent examples of the thing you claim is and is not communism.
Any and every single party system, including fascism, communism, and monarchy, are oppressive. Full stop.
Constantly redefining things because trolls troll is literally capitulating to the worst of humanity. Why should we have to start from scratch just because a few pieces of shit decided to poison the well? Why is it so hard for everyone to redefine a word to THE ACTUAL ROOT WORDS it's made from?
Sometimes the problem is not the word but the sheer intellectual lazyness of everyone else. I ask again: Why do we need a different word when the word LITERALLY AND DEMONSTRABLY does not mean what the fascist regimes want it to mean?
Yep all anyone has to do is look at popular culture right now. Most of the people who Proclaim to be Libertarians can't even be consistently libertarian. To the point where honestly they're just capitalists. Then you get people on the right claiming to be anarchists as well. With similar outcomes. They're just capitalists under another moniker. If there's one thing capitalists and pulls alike love to do is double-speak/newspeak. And redefining terms to mean whatever they want.