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> Humanity seems to have learned the lesson with fascism, but it somehow missed the same exact lesson with communism. Because the vast majority of people on th
by snehk 3y ago
> Humanity seems to have learned the lesson with fascism, but it somehow missed the same exact lesson with communism.
Because the vast majority of people on this planet, when they learn about what communism is, learn about the ideas of it. The US is pretty much the only place where it's taught as "Whatever China is doing" and "whatever Russia did".
Imagine someone talking about North Korea and constantly talking about how democracy is the reason for everything bad that's going on there. What they're doing must be democratic... it says so right in the name. Or the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
- golergka 3y agoWhat Pol Pot and Mao did are natural consequences of these ideas. The communist ideas themselves are a promise that if you jump off a roof and start waving your hands really hard, you'll fly. Intelligent people drive their conclusions on empirical data instead of theories, but you're absolutely right about the majority.
- Geezus_42 3y agoThe problem is authoritarianism, not Communism. Fascism is authoritarian by definition. Communism CAN be authoritarian, but that is not built in by default.