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Which communism, the one in reality or the one in theory?
by visarga 5y ago
Which communism, the one in reality or the one in theory?
- ogogmad 5y agoThe one in theory, of course. GP's view isn't unique: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Mann#Views_on_Russian_communism_and_Nazi-fascism https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Mann#Views_on_Russian_c...
- pgorczak 5y agoI think this distinction is worth mentioning whenever the comparison with fascism comes up. There is communist philosophy that we can discuss or joke about like OP that is somewhat disconnected from the brutal historical reality. This is not possible with fascism which is purely political (there are pretty much no fascist philosophical works).
- peoplefromibiza 5y agoor the one you don't know about https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Italian_Communist_Party https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Italian_Communist_Party
- MathCodeLove 5y agoAnd yet it still failed.
- peoplefromibiza 5y agoeverything fails given a long enough time span but are you sure it actually failed?