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  • Dessalines@lemmy.mltoMemes@lemmy.mlCommunism in theory vs in practice
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    17 hours ago

    Who’s the one telling you that the USSR, Cuba, China, Venezuela or Vietnam are/were autocracies?

    If you actually investigate countries that have substantive / economic democracy, which goes far beyond the liberal equality before the law, you’ll find them to be far more democratic than the countries accusing them of being autocracies.




  • During covid, going to a rural area in the US really got to me. The population is so individualistic / freedom-brained / “i do whatever I want all the time”, that their grandmothers all dying meant nothing to them. I got mine keeps meaning smaller and smaller groups of people.