Why there is so much communist propaganda on lemmy?
Why there is so much communist propaganda on lemmy?
Even from people that never lived in a communist state
edit: im 17 and i hate communism
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Dunno about communist unless you count the tankies which I don't see on the main instances.
Lots of socialist stuff though.
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Socialism — the dictatorship of the working-class — is the transitional mode of production between capitalism — the dictatorship of the capitalist class — and the stateless, classless mode of production that is communism. You can't really separate the two.
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Thats the communist definition of socialism. Socialism originally just referred to the leftist movement as a whole (including anarchists and dem-socs, which i guess he refers to). And is also used to refer to the concept of workers owning the means of production
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The first line in Wikipedia "Socialism is an economic and political philosophy encompassing diverse economic and social systems[1] characterised by social ownership of the means of production".
To be clear, this definition goes back to 1832, where the original inventor of the word used to define a society "based on the shared ownership of resources". So it is not just "the communist definition" it really is the definition, it did not "originally" refer to anything else.
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But that definition from Wikipedia doesn't contain the contested part of the definition, that it is a "transitional system"
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