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Easy one. Communism is the future of mankind, prove me wrong
You'd go straight to the top of several communities
why does it seem like basically all the past communist leaders were also evil and cruel? can't we get some chill ones?
Because anyone trying anything remotely close to communism becomes a big target for bourgeouisie capitalist interests. But hey, it is much better to be a chill communist who gets strung up in the streets by fascists while accomplishing nothing, am I right?
In the seventies and eighties the communist leaders of Hungary, when talking about the realities of the time introduced some terms to explain the difference of the real world from the ideals.
"Socialism that exists"
"Socialism that works"
The jokes immediately started coming, pointing out that the socialism that exists does not work, while the socialism that works does not exist.