It's actually disheartening that all communist countries become authoritarian. Theoretically with flat power structure, they should all become democracies. Maybe they ARE not communists.

It's just a shitpost, bro, don't think about it, let me just make a shitpost covering a political topic, I'm not making a statement just a shitpost, bro.

If it's a shitpost why do you defend it so much?

I'm in this picture and I don't like it

As much as I agree with your communism comment the same can be said to our democracy. We are a representative democracy and choose people to choose for us.

Those words can mean those things, but communism is also used to describe a political system. After all, part of the definition of communism is statelessness which is entirely about the politics and not the economics (source).

Also, just as democracy might be used to describe a political system, it commonly taken to mean liberal democracy, and thus in most contemporary contexts implies an economic system of capitalism.

So I just think it depends on the context what people mean by these terms. Of course you can try to define communism only in economic terms, but since the term is so abused and "inflated" it's hard to claim it has any singular or absolute meaning.

Depending on who you are talking to, communism has practically opposite meanings, for example, in public schools in the U.S. they teach that communism is when all economic activity is controlled by a centralized state, which is ironically the exact opposite of how Marx defined communism.

The same can be said of democracy.

The tankies are asleep, post anti communist memes!

Mexico didn't build a wall. The Eastern Block did in the cold war. Think the Berlin Wall

The big problem, however, is that nobody understands the term communism and applies it to lots of things which are not

I think it's because terms used in real life often don't match their definition. The Democratic Peoples Republic of Korea is not democratic or a republic. The National Socialist Party were not socialist. The Chinese Communist Party allows billionaires to privately own the means of production. Capitalist America regulates, subsidizes, and bails out corporations instead of allowing a free market.

The real world is more nuanced than the terms used to describe it. It doesn't help that terms like capitalism, communism, democracy, etc, have gone the way of "literally". It can mean "literally" or it can mean the exact opposite of "literally"; it depends on context.

the book was great, though.

(Nationstates by Max Barry)

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