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It's funny how everyone's dog-piling in response to things I didn't say. I invite you to find any of the topics you bring up in my original post. You won't. St
by losteric 9y ago
It's funny how everyone's dog-piling in response to things I didn't say. I invite you to find any of the topics you bring up in my original post. You won't.
Stalin, Trotsky, and Lenin may have hoped for Communism, but their actions built a brutal dictatorship. I don't care what they called themselves - I care about the results. No one "accidentally" builds a dictatorship.
I'm not supporting Communism, or the USSR, I'm calling out intellectual laziness. Communism is a specific ideology, there are plenty of real and valid criticisms - but "look at the USSR" is not a valid argument.
The USSR is a good argument against dictatorships, monarchies, totalitarianism, on and on... but Communism is one thing it was not.
- nickik 9y agoThe error that you are making is that when we are looking at ideology and evaluation if it could help to improve the world. With Communism there are massive amounts of problems, but a major one is how to think of the transition, and how to enact the transition. The USSR had to be a dictatorship because otherwise they and everybody who thinks about it for 5 min understand that the transition to communism will simply not happen. So if you have a ideology that practically unreachable then that is a massive problem for that ideology and its ability to actually improve the world. The very extreme proposition dictated by communism forces the people who follow the ideology into extreme actions.