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  • This is an ignorant argument because the ideology of communism is not the communist utopia. These are two distinct concepts.

    Marx and Engels were both notorious authoritarians who made fun of the pacifist socialists of their time for being too weak and cowardly, and they preached violence for as long as they lived, and this reflected in their works. The communist ideology as described by them has three stages:

    1. A violent revolution that overthrows capitalism
    2. A tyrannical transitional socialist state that rules with an iron fist on the “behalf of the workers” is tasked with protecting the revolution by any means and bringing about the social conditions necessary to realize communism (dictatorship of the proletariat)
    3. Actually realizing communism

    Since communism is a utopia, it will never, ever be achieved, and so the communist ideology will always get stuck on stage 2 forever… and that’s exactly what we’ve seen in history. Every single communist attempt in history that has resulted in a successful violent revolution ended up being tyrannical hellhole with a regime that always swore that communism was around the corner but they’re not quite there yet.

    The only people who try to conflate the communist utopia with the communist ideology are Marxists who are too disingenuous to admit that their crappy ideology is in fact inherently violent and inherently authoritarian. No amount of True Scotsman fallacies about “real” communism is going to change reality. Those were real communist attempts, those were real communist policies, and those were real communist principles at work. No, it’s not fascism, it’s communism. This is what the ideology results in every single time. No amount of attempts is going to change the inevitable outcome. People forget, but Fascism and Communism are sister ideologies. They’re not opposite ideologies, but adjacent ones.










  • These bullshit Twitter takes are getting old. This is a more realistic interpretation.

    Far left: We’re going to exterminate entire groups for the sake of “equality”

    Far right: We’re going to exterminate entire groups for the sake of “purity”

    End result = A bunch of people get murdered

    Centrists: These both look pretty bad, we just want people’s needs to be met

    End result = pragmatic governance

    If you’re someone who hates centrists because they’re not as extreme as you then YOU are a part of the problem.