Why did communism always turn into a kind of dictatorship?
Why did communism always turn into a kind of dictatorship?
Afaik this happened with every single instance of a communist country. Communism seems like a pretty good idea on the surface, but then why does it always become autocratic?
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Because Communism only works on paper. (lolol idiots can down vote me to Hell) Name ONE country communism has worked in.
Just one.
[Double Plus Edit] Just a single one. I'm still waiting. Now. Still. Now. Still.
Cuba exists and has better rankings than the US in higher education, and life expectancy.
Neither of those things are true.
According to Wikipedia USA life expectancy is 79.3, Cuba is 78.1
Ranking higher education is much trickier but pretty much every list I could find puts USA right at the top. American higher education institutions are world class and remains probably America's biggest competitive advantage (i.e. brain drain).
Also Cuba probably isn't the best example to rebut the "why does communism always turn into a dictatorship" question.
I've been to Cuba several times. You can call it communism, but it's not. For Christ's sake the Cubans were doing Air BnB during Darpanet, when they didn't even have phones. I've only stayed in a hotel there once, my 1st time there 30 years ago.
They live under a hybrid system of dictatorship, capitalism, communism.
Get out of the basement and go see some of these places. Your book smarts aren't.
Is "working" a sliding goalpost for you, or can you define it? You made the claim that Communism only works on paper and are asking people to disprove your claim, rather than substantiate your claim yourself. Surely you can see why others find your comment unproductive, correct?
Uh huh
How's capitalism working out for ya
About the same way communism has
So capitalism has never been implemented and is mainly a term used by people who only "know" what state propaganda taught them to refer to things they don't like?
Ignoring everything that American media will tell you about China, the Chinese people seem to be quite happy with their central government. Far more than any western country would even consider possible for themselves.
It stands to reason that a capitalist state which hopes to maintain even a sheer facade of democracy and freedom of the press and speech, would do everything in its power to ensure that public opinion considers even the most successful socialist states as abject failures and something to be feared, maintaining that capitalism is the best thing the human mind can possibly conjure. This would ensure that the public never considers socialist ideas to be a realistic option worth educating each other about or exercising any of their democratic power to push for, so that the state never has to seriously confront anyone questioning the power of capital, and even gives the state cover to operate against socialist regimes and actors as a "humanitarian" or "national security" threat.
The delegitimization is already done to the point that the question of socialism is a non-starter, all thought is terminated at the mere mention of it, and the state media can jump straight to calling people terrorists and dictators without anyone questioning it or the words losing any weight.
Lololol. Nice try. My Chinese girlfriend would strongly disagree with you.
Also China is not communist in case you haven't noticed. Billionaires don't exist in communism.
[edit] Your downvotes don't make it any less true. But you all have taught me a valuable lesson. I will say that. I had no idea that there was a group of people with less intelligence than MAGA. Enjoy your fantasy world!
Every single one its been tried in without exception