Not communism is bad, it's bad an asshole in the gov, calling it communism without beeing it, but an fascism. It's like North Corea, called an communist system, but it isn't its an fascist dictatorship, with an asshole lider, not the people which gov. This certainly is a bad system, but not worse as capitalism, Its when the extreme right took with the extreme left, than its always deadly for the people. Currently a real communism don't exist in the worl, because any intention to form it was sabotaged and corrupted by the capitalist elite, they all are more ore less bloody dictatorships.

Some animals are more equal than others

[–] Cowbee@lemmy.ml 18 points 3 days ago

This is wrong, plainly. Fascism is a thoroughly capitalist ideology, no existing socialist state can be classified as fascist. The idea that socialism was simply sabotaged by "elites" ignores the material reality that socialism brought tremendous democratization, decreased disparity, and massive improvements in life metrics for the working class wherever it has been implemented. This is just centrist meandering more than anything.

As a side-note, Animal Farm is chiefly about how much Orwell despises the working class and believes them to be beyond stupid and incapable of governing themselves, destined to be taken advantage of no matter the system. Read A Critical Read of Animal Farm for more on this, Orwell was a homophobic, anti-semetic anti-communist fed that reported on suspected communists to British intelligence.

[–] sangeteria@lemmy.ml 13 points 3 days ago

Define communism and fascism. And read an actual political book instead of the shit that they literally teach you when you're a preteen (animal farm/1984), they teach it to you then cuz ur too young to handle the real shit, but now you can.

[–] yogthos@lemmy.ml 11 points 3 days ago

The notion of dictatorship in a sense of a single person running things is deeply unserious. As Anna Louise Strong puts it in This Soviet World: