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Communism in theory vs in practice
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this post was submitted on 15 Mar 2025
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Yeah, as someone with Lakota, Irish, Bengali, Kurdish, and Iraqi friends and opiate and meth addicted family, I am not sure whether to laugh or cry at children of your kind. I am sure the 1990s and the introduction of capitalism was a great and prosperous time.
American Capitalism? I invoked multiple genocides and political repressions that weren't American. I am sure that 1840s Hungarians and Irish, 1930s Bengalis, and 1990s and 2000s Iraqis are glad to know that capitalism isn't repressive or intentionally creating starvation because the people creating the repression and starvation said that they aren't. Even though China gave up on most communist ambitions post-Dheng and Cuba has been strangled by American blockades, both have not been nearly as active in war mongering as "Western Nations", nor as repressive, despite active propaganda about them. And Western repression is much more tied to their economic modes than other nations. You have to kill anti-war protesters (e.g. Kent State) because if not full colonialism, we need neo-colonialism, so pro-Vietnamese protests can't be tolerated. And we need to support Israel, so "anti-Semitic" a.k.a. anti-Zionist protesters can't be tolerated and have no rights, because of their ties to the military and arms industry. Such as Mahmoud Khalil, who needs to be disappeared and sent to an undisclosed location to try to push fascist anti-protest, anti-speech laws.
No they haven't.
China did not abandon Communism, they pivoted from their Left-deviationism that was based in idealism, not materialism. The Gang of Four tried to achieve Communism through Fiat, despite the Productive Forces being far below the level for that to be feasible. They rejected markets out of a miral fetishization of Poverty in an entirely publicly owned economy, rather than for Materialist reasons, so they course corrected to Marxian economics.
It was right-deviationism of using markets and foreign capital investment to build up productive forces.
It was an adherance to more traditional Marxist economics than under the Gang of Four. Marxists don't believe you can develop the productive forces to the level where public ownership is better through fiat, or by decree. If you go back and read Marx and Engels, and even Lenin, they make it clear that they believed even in developed Capitalist economies, only the large firms should be nationalized, while the small firms should be allowed to naturally develop, perhaps with a bit of a push.