• VILenin [he/him]M
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    2 years ago

    There has never been a more meaningless term invented to describe a system than "totalitarianism".

  • Alaskaball [comrade/them]
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    2 years ago

    I recall hearing stories of how the Soviet government had to send representatives to negotiate or even beg the worker Soviets of some factories to change their production lines to match some of the 5 year plans.

    But sure, totalitarian control over the population was a thing.

    • VILenin [he/him]M
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      2 years ago

      Totalitarianism is when capitalists don't get to do whatever they want

      • Alaskaball [comrade/them]
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        2 years ago

        I guess that makes the nazis and fascists less totalitarian than the communists :xok-og:

    • Frank [he/him, he/him]
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      2 years ago

      I read a book for school, can't remember what it was called, but a big part of it was how the workers of a factory in late Communist Hungary would basically take their factory apart and re-build it based on what resources were available. If they had potatoes and carrots it was a baby food factory. If they had fruit it was a juice factory. Whatever shortages they might face they would re-configure their equipment to continue to produce something if they possibly could.

      And then, of course, when Communism was destroyed the factory was stolen and they all lost everything.

      • Alaskaball [comrade/them]
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        2 years ago

        thats a very interesting example. Very flexible factory production lines aren't something you really hear about nowadays in a world that emphasizes profitability through streamlining and specializing factory production lines. Thank you for sharing.

  • AnarchoCummunist [he/him]
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    2 years ago

    I went to a very, VERY Liberal college online. I graduate in 2 weeks actually. Nevertheless, I made sure throughout my entire time to throw in some Marxist and Anarchist points into EVERY SINGLE paper I wrote from the very start to my last assignment due on Saturday.

    If you try and force-feed me capitalism, I will counter with Dialectical materialist Communist theory.

  • refolde [she/her, any]
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    2 years ago

    Punch whoever wrote this in the face and then squeeze lemon juice into their eyes.

    • FlakesBongler [they/them]
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      edit-2
      2 years ago

      Tie a bunch of lemons to your fists and then punch them in the eyes

      Save some time that way

  • macabrett
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    2 years ago

    im about to become a totalitarian dictator if you do not clean your monitor

    • bbnh69420 [she/her, they/them]
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      2 years ago

      Reminder that Hannah Arendt was an inveterate racist who opposed integration, and her words on what is and isn’t fascism are worth less than dirt

      https://www.normfriesen.info/forgotten/little_rock1.pdf

      “Enforced integration is no better than enforced segregation”