Akasazh

That last sentence made me crack up

Joe cartoon!

C/angryupvote

Well I think it depends on your interpretation. I personally think the post Stalin brands of communism are doing the movement a disservice as in my view they misrepresent the communist ideology.

For instance i don't see much immigration from people in capitalist nations to any of the countries you mentioned, even not people who embrace that brand of socialism. If there's any talk about migrating from capitalist countries to more socialist ones, is usually people from the states to (slightly more) socialist places like Germany or Scandinavia.

Therefore my opinion is that communist ideas are better propagated through that manner. Armed uprisings tend to leave the most ruthless competitor in charge to get corrupted by the power and not actually following through with the communist plan and devise a brand of socialism in which them being in charge is also communist.

But i think we fundamentally disagree on that. That's not bad, though. I can see some reason to some of the brand of socialism that is general on lemmygrad. The only thing I fail to comprehend is the support of the current Russian leadership as they don't even pretend to have anything to do with socialist ideology.

Doesn't north Korea's dynastic autocratic rule appear slightly monarchistic to you? Autocratic would be a better word than monarchistic in general.

But there isn't a single 'communist' state where the prolitariat do the ruling

Not really successes at all if you've read your Marx.

All of them followed in Stalins 'leninistic' (how ironic) approach. With a single ruler that reeks of old fashioned monarchism rather then the rule of the prolitariat. Some of them even renouncing communism and embracing blatant capitalism (some only embracing capitalism but staying communist in name only).

The only thing they do for pure marxism is accelerating the revolution to come, but actualy condoning repression in other places just for that sake is quite fin de siecle type of marxist thought.

~~You should get a refund from wherever you took basic maths.~~

I stand corrected.

I might be inclined to give you the benefit of the doubt here, but where I to read your comment with the same critical eye as you observed op's source with, you are just saying 'just trust me, bro'.

What might be clear to you, due to all your reading, might not be as obvious to the regular reader. Here's where it helps to link to a source, as that increases credulity.

kthnxbye

At least they have provided a source, where yourself have made many claims, yet provided no source to back them up.

So show your sources, please.

Yeah, it's a shame that the sarcasm gets overlooked by many. So it gets mistaken as a celebration of fascism.

Such is the bane of great parody, unfortunately.

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