▲ 781 ▼ Uyghurs and Ukraine are great filters for figuring out who's actually a fascist (lemmy.world) submitted 2 years ago by PugJesus@lemmy.world to c/politicalmemes@lemmy.world 250 comments fedilink hide all child comments
[–] KillingTimeItself@lemmy.dbzer0.com -3 points 2 years ago (1 child) well yeah, because it was the soviet union that was communist. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] Eldritch@lemmy.world 16 points 2 years ago The Soviet Union was a state. Therefore not stateless, therefore not communist. The Soviet Union had a separate political class. One that scapegoated, imprisoned, and even slaughtered any proletariat that dared criticize the vanguard party and it's leaders. Therefore not classes, not communist. The Soviet Union nominally implemented Communism. But communism and Communism aren't the same thing. I could name my dog Communism. And my dog would be Communism. But not communism. The soviets cosplayed communism. But never were or will be communist. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] Eldritch@lemmy.world 16 points 2 years ago The Soviet Union was a state. Therefore not stateless, therefore not communist. The Soviet Union had a separate political class. One that scapegoated, imprisoned, and even slaughtered any proletariat that dared criticize the vanguard party and it's leaders. Therefore not classes, not communist. The Soviet Union nominally implemented Communism. But communism and Communism aren't the same thing. I could name my dog Communism. And my dog would be Communism. But not communism. The soviets cosplayed communism. But never were or will be communist. permalink fedilink source parent
