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    10 months ago

    How come so many people don’t like communism? Lemmings told me communism is amazing!

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      10 months ago

      Mandatory “there’s more than one version”. You might think anarchism is also bullshit but it’s not North Korea.

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        10 months ago

        Yet somehow every version is a totalitarian clusterfuck.

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              10 months ago

              Off the top of my head, 2. One with no UN seat and one long gone, to be fair, but they still exist and are/were sovereign. You can’t say either turned into totalitarianism.

              Maybe you could say they would have or will, but that’s just your guess. I could say the same thing about liberal democracy and be equally as well supported.

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                  10 months ago

                  Republican Spain and the “Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria” AKA Rojava.

                  Republican Spain had some communist factions too, but Rojava is explicitly built around a specific strain of anarchism, and is an “administration” instead of a government. I doubt it looks very anarchist in practice, but that’s neither here nor there, and they’re democratic enough the US has endorsed them in the past to Turkey’s great displeasure.